John 7:19-23

Living Bible

¹⁹ None of you obeys the laws of Moses! So why pick on me for breaking them? Why kill me for this?”

²⁰ The crowd replied, “You’re out of your mind! Who’s trying to kill you?”

^21-23 Jesus replied, “I worked on the Sabbath by healing a man, and you were surprised. But you work on the Sabbath, too, whenever you obey Moses’ law of circumcision (actually, however, this tradition of circumcision is older than the Mosaic law); for if the correct time for circumcising your children falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it, as you should. So why should I be condemned for making a man completely well on the Sabbath?