does Jesus tell the former invalid when He meets him later in the temple?
John 5:14. When Jesus tells the man to “stop sinning” (NIV), He implies, first of all, that the man’s illness was caused by sin in some sense. Continued sin might result in a relapse of the paralysis. There is, however, an even deeper element here. The form of the word translated “sinning” is extremely continuous. Jesus commands the man to stop something that he had been doing continuously, right up to the time of this encounter in the temple. This implies that the man had somehow been continuing in sin, even in a paralyzed state. What kind of sin was Jesus talking about? A paralyzed man cannot rob banks, commit adultery, or kill anyone. Jesus must have been referring to sin of the mind his thoughts, his attitudes, his imagination. After extending grace to the paralytic, Jesus tells him to “sin no more.” Look up the following texts: How do they reveal the same principle manifested in Christ’s words to the healed man? John 8:10, 11; Rom. 6:1-6; Gal. 2:16, 17. But while the healing of th
