Footnotes

1. John 7:21 tn Grk “Jesus answered and said to them.”
2. John 7:21 tn Grk “I did one deed.”
3. John 7:21 sn The “one miracle” that caused them all to be amazed was the last previous public miracle in Jerusalem recorded by the author, the healing of the paralyzed man in John 5:1-9 on the Sabbath. (The synoptic gospels record other Sabbath healings, but John does not mention them.)
4. John 7:22 tn Grk “gave you circumcision.”
5. John 7:22 tn Grk “a man.” While the text literally reads “circumcise a man” in actual fact the practice of circumcising male infants on the eighth day after birth (see Phil 3:5) is primarily what is in view here.