John 5:13

13 But the man who had been healed didn't know who it was, because Yeshua had slipped away into the crowd.

John 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

John 5:13

And he that was healed, wist not who he was
He had never seen, and perhaps had never heard of Christ before, and so knew him not; and besides, Christ gave him no opportunity of conversing with him, or so much as to ask him who he was:

for Jesus had conveyed himself away;
had slipped away, as soon as ever he had wrought the miracle:

a multitude being in [that] place;
or "from the multitude that were in [that] place"; not that he hid himself among them, and there remained undiscovered; but he passed through them, and went his way to the temple, where he found the man he had healed, as in the following verse.

John 5:13 In-Context

11 But he answered them, "The man who healed me -- he's the one who told me, `Pick up your mat and walk.'"

12 They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?"

13 But the man who had been healed didn't know who it was, because Yeshua had slipped away into the crowd.

14 Afterwards Yeshua found him in the Temple court and said to him, "See, you are well! Now stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you!"

15 The man went off and told the Judeans it was Yeshua who had healed him;