12. Interrogaverunt ergo eum: 12. They asked him, therefore: Quis est ille homo qui dixit Who is that man who said to tibi, Tolle grabatum tuum, et thee: Take up thy bed and ambula? walk? 13. Is autem qui sanus fuerat 13. But he who was healed, effectus, nesciebat quis knew not who it was. For Jesus esset. Iesus enim declinavit a went aside from the multitude turba constituta in loco. standing in the place. 13. Christ had gone aside to escape the envy of the evil‐minded as well as the admiration of the well‐disposed. See vi. 15. A more correct rendering of the Greek would be: *For Jesus had gone aside, there being a crowd in the place.* 14. Postea invenit eum Iesus 14. Afterwards Jesus findeth in templo, et dixit illi: Ecce him in the temple, and saith sanus factus es: iam noli to him: Behold thou art made peccare, ne deterius tibi whole: sin no more, lest some aliquid contingat. worse thing happen to thee. 15. Abiit ille homo, et 15. And the man went his way, nuntiavit Iudaeis quia Iesus and told the Jews that it was esset, quia fecit eum sanum. Jesus who had made him whole. 14. Christ’s words, *Sin no more*, insinuate that the man’s previous illness had been the result of sin; and he is warned that if he provoke God further, something worse may happen to him; worse, perhaps, even on this side, and infinitely worse beyond, the grave. “Some say, indeed,” says St. Chrys., “because we have corrupted ourselves for a short time, shall we be tormented eternally? But see how long this man was tormented for his sins. Sin is not to be measured by length of time, but by the nature of sin itself.” 16. Propterea persequebantur 16. Therefore did the Jews Iudaei Iesum, quia haec persecute Jesus, because he faciebat in sabbato. did these things on the sabbath. 16. Therefore the Jews, especially the Scribes and Pharisees, persecuted, or rather, perhaps, accused(47) Jesus for healing a man on the Sabbath (comp. vii. 23; Luke vi. 7), and for authorizing him who was healed to violate the Sabbath. 17. Iesus autem respondit eis: 17. But Jesus answered them: Pater meus usque modo My Father worketh until now; operatur, et ego operor. and I work. 17. Christ’s reply is, that as _His_ (not _our_, for He was the natural Son of God, we are only adopted sons) Father worketh continually, and therefore even on the Sabbath, conserving and governing all things; so, too, He Himself, He being consubstantial with the Father. Thus He tells them that equally with the Father He is exempt from the law of the Sabbath.