⁵ Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the people, because they considered John a prophet.^(A)

¹⁹ So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to,

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)

Division Over Who Jesus Is

²⁵ At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?^(H)

³³ When they heard this, they were furious^(A) and wanted to put them to death.