5:14
Jesus found the man later on in the temple, it implies that Jesus deliberately sought out the man. The man probably wasn’t bothered as being healed was all he was concerned about. However, Jesus had a very serious message for him. Jesus tells him to take the healing as a sign, a sign of God’s grace, and he is to “sin no more”, otherwise something far worse may happen to him. Some (e.g. Carson) take this as indicating that the condition he had was a direct result of sin, i.e God’s judgement upon him. Now sometimes sickness is a direct result of sin, but most of the time it is not (though all sickness is an indirect result of sin, due to the fall), and I don’t see any strong indication that this is the case here. I think Jesus is telling him that there are far more important things that physical well-being (though that is important).
5:15,16
The man went to tell the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him. He seems to have been more concerned with keeping in with the Jewish leaders, than with God. We see in the synoptic gospels and in John that the Sabbath was a key point of contention between Jesus and the religious leaders, and John states explicitly that this was the case, and was why they persecuted the Lord.
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