John 7:14–24

¹⁴When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple^a and began to teach. ¹⁵Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned,^b since he hasn’t been trained?”

¹⁶Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.^{c 17}If anyone wants to do his will,^d he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. ¹⁸The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory;^e but he who seeks the glory^f of the one who sent him is true,^g and there is no unrighteousness in him.^{h 19}Didn’t Mosesⁱ give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law.^j Why are you trying to kill me?”

²⁰“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹“I performed one work,^k and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered. ²²“This is why Moses has given you circumcision^l—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers^m—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.^{n 23}If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath^o so that the law of Moses^p won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath? ²⁴Stop judging^q according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”