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

25 [c]Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he whom they go about to kill?

26 And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him: do the rulers know indeed that this is indeed that Christ?

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:24 We must judge according to the truth of things, lest the persons of men do turn us and carry us away.
  2. 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.
  3. John 7:25 Many do marvel that the endeavors of the enemies of God have no success: yet in the mean season they do not acknowledge the virtue and power of God.

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