22 (A)Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision, (not because it is of Moses, but of the (B)fathers) and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man.

23 If a man on the Sabbath receive circumcision, that the [a]Law of Moses should not be broken, be ye angry with me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day?

24 (C)[b]Judge not [c]according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:23 That is to say, if the law of circumcision which Moses gave, be of so great accompt amongst you, that you doubt not to circumcise upon the Sabbath, do you rightly reprove me for healing a man thoroughly?
  2. John 7:24 We must judge according to the truth of things, lest the persons of men do turn us and carry us away.
  3. John 7:24 By the show that I make: for I seem to be but an abject and rascal of Galilee, and a carpenter’s son, whom no man maketh account of: but mark the matter itself well, and judge the tree by the fruit.

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