SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:14
Despus le hall Jess en el Templo, y le dijo: He aquí, eres ya sano; no peques ms, para que no te venga alguna cosa peor.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 5:14
Verse 14. Jesus findeth him in the temple] The man being conscious that it was through the mercy of God that he was restored, (though he did not as yet know distinctly who Christ was,) went to the temple to return thanks to God for his cure. Whether this was on the same day, or some other, does not distinctly appear: it was probably the same day, after he had carried home his couch. How many, when they are made well, forget the hand that has healed them, and, instead of gratitude and obedience to God, use their renewed health and strength in the service of sin! Those who make this use of God's mercies may consider their restoration as a respite only from perdition. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.] Our Lord, intending to discover to this man who he was, gave him two proofs of the perfection of his knowledge. 1. He showed him that he knew the secret of the past-sin no more: thereby intimating that his former sins were the cause of his long affliction. 2. He showed him that he knew the future-lest a worse thing come unto thee: if thy iniquity be repeated, thy punishment will be increased.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple , etc.] Perhaps on the same day; for as soon as he had been at home, and laid down his bed, it is very likely he went directly to the temple, there to show himself, attend the worship of the place, and return thanks to God for the great mercy bestowed on him: and said unto him, behold thou art made whole ; cured of the disease that had attended him so many years; and a wonderful cure it was; well may a behold be prefixed; though this is here not only a note of admiration, but of attention, to what he was about to say to him: sin is a disease, which is original, natural, and hereditary to men; it is an epidemical one, all are affected with it, and all the powers and faculties of the soul; and it is a nauseous and loathsome one; and what is mortal and incurable in itself, and only to be cured by the great physician, Jesus Christ: Gods elect are attended with it as others, and being made sensible thereof, they come to Christ for a cure, and receive one, as this man did, to whom he said, sin no more ; intimating, that as all diseases of the body spring from sin, so had his; and that the time past of his life should suffice, for a course of sinning; and that the mercy he had received, laid him under an obligation to guard against it, to which there would still be a proneness in him; nor did our Lord imagine, that he could hereafter live without sin, but that he should not indulge himself in it, and give up himself unto it, and live in it: so all the diseases of the soul arise from sin; and when a person is converted, he ought not to walk as others do, or he himself has done; and though there is a propensity to sin and backslide from God after conversion, yet the grace of God teaches men to deny sin, and to live righteously; and though it cannot be thought that they should be, and act without sin, yet it becomes them not to live in sin, or go on in a course of it, as heretofore: lest a worse thing come unto thee ; for God could send a worse disease, or a sorer affliction, than he had yet done; an heavier punishment, either in this world, or that to come: and apply this to a good man, a converted man, one called by grace and cured by Christ, and a worse thing through sin may come unto him than a bodily disorder, namely, the hidings of Gods face; for as his presence is life, his absence is death, to such persons; and as for such who only make a profession of religion, and are externally reformed only, such, if they sin and fall away, their latter end is worse than the beginning.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-16 - Those eased of the punishment of sin, are in danger of returning to sin, when the terror and restraint are over, unless Divine grace drie up the fountain. The misery believers are made whole from, warns us to sin no more, having felt the smart of sin. This is the voice of ever providence, God, and sin no more. Christ saw it necessary to give thi caution; for it is common for people, when sick, to promise much; when newly recovered, to perform only something; but after awhile to forge all. Christ spoke of the wrath to come, which is beyond compare wors than the many hours, nay, weeks and years of pain, some wicked men have to suffer in consequence of their unlawful indulgences. And if suc afflictions are severe, how dreadful will be the everlasting punishmen of the wicked!
Greek Textus Receptus
μετα 3326 PREP ταυτα 5023 D-APN ευρισκει 2147 5719 V-PAI-3S αυτον 846 P-ASM ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSN ιερω 2411 N-DSN και 2532 CONJ ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S αυτω 846 P-DSM ιδε 1492 5657 V-AAM-2S υγιης 5199 A-NSM γεγονας 1096 5754 V-2RAI-2S μηκετι 3371 ADV αμαρτανε 264 5720 V-PAM-2S ινα 2443 CONJ μη 3361 PRT-N χειρον 5501 A-NSN τι 5100 X-NSN σοι 4671 P-2DS γενηται 1096 5638 V-2ADS-3S
Vincent's NT Word Studies
14. Findeth - said. Note the lively interchange of the tenses, as in ver. 13.Sin no more (mhketi amartane). No longer continue to sin. See on Matt. i. 21. Jesus thus shows His knowledge that the sickness was the result of sin.
A worse thing. Than even those thirty-eight years of suffering.
Come unto thee (soi genhtai). Rev., better, befall thee. Literally, come to pass.
