Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
Sin no more ...  This shows that sin was connected with the infirmity which had so long debilitated the cripple.  There is indeed a connection between sin and suffering.  In fact all human sorrows and sufferings, even death itself, head up at last in the fountainhead of the sin of Adam.  This is far from teaching that all sickness or suffering is specifically related to the sin of the sufferer.  Jesus himself stressed (John 9:3) that the blindness of the man he healed was not related to either his or his parents' sins.  Nevertheless, an incredible amount of the world's woe is merely the sins af men returned at last upon their own heads.  Trench expressed it thus: