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19 Moses gave you the law,[a] but none of you obeys that law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

20 The people answered, “A demon has come into you. We are not trying to kill you.”

21 Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22 Moses gave you the law about circumcision. (But really Moses did not give you circumcision; it came from our ancestors.) And yet you circumcise a baby boy on a Sabbath day. 23 If a baby boy can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the law of Moses, why are you angry at me for healing a person’s whole body on the Sabbath day? 24 Stop judging by the way things look, but judge by what is really right.”

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Footnotes

  1. 7:19 law Moses gave God’s people the Law that God gave him on Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:29–32).

19 Has not Moses given you the law?(A) Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”(B)

20 “You are demon-possessed,”(C) the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

21 Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle,(D) and you are all amazed. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision(E) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),(F) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 23 Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”(G)

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