John 5:15

15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

John 5:15 in Other Translations

15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

15 Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.

15 The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

15 The man went back to the Jews and told them that Jesus was the man who had made him well.

15 The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

15 The man went away. He told the Jews it was Jesus who had made him well.

John 5:15 Meaning and Commentary

John 5:15

The man departed
From Christ, and from the temple, not through displeasure, or as resenting what was said to him, but as highly delighted that he had found his kind benefactor and physician; and went either to Bethesda, where the miracle was wrought, and where a multitude of people were, and where he might expect to find some of the persons that had questioned him about carrying his bed, and who it was that bid him do it; or rather to the sanhedrim; see ( John 5:33 ) compared with ( John 1:19 ) ;

and told the Jews;
the members of that great council, the chief priests, "scribes", and elders, whose business it was to judge of a prophet, and of anyone that should set up for the Messiah:

that it was Jesus;
of Nazareth, of whom so much talk was about his doctrines and miracles, and who was thought to be the Messiah:

which had made him whole;
this he did, not out of any ill will to Christ, with any bad design upon him, to impeach and accuse him as a violator of the sabbath, for what he had said and done to him; for this would have been most ungrateful, and even barbarous, brutish, and diabolical; but with a good intention, that Jesus might have the glory of the cure, and that others of his fellow creatures in distress might know where, and from whom to have relief; and chiefly that the sanhedrim might be induced hereby to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, and to declare and patronize him as such: and that his end was good, is clear from this, that he does not say it was Jesus that bid him take up his bed and walk, which was what the Jews cavilled at, not caring to hear of the cure; but that made him whole: he observes the miracle to them with a grateful spirit, to the honour of his physician, and that he might be thought to be what he really was.

John 5:15 In-Context

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.

17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

Cross References

• 1. S John 1:19