John 7:9-23

9Having said these things to them, He stayed behind in Galilee.

10But [afterward], when His brothers had gone up to the feast, He went up too, not publicly [with a caravan], but quietly [because He did not want to be noticed].

11So the Jews kept looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”

12There was a lot of whispered discussion and murmuring among the crowds about Him. Some were saying, “He is a good man”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He misleads the people [giving them false ideas].”

13Yet no one was speaking out openly and freely about Him for fear of [the leaders of] the Jews.

14When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple [court] and began to teach.

15Then the Jews were perplexed. They said, “How did this man become learned [so versed in the Scriptures and theology] without formal training?”

16Jesus answered them by saying, “My teaching is not My own, but His who sent Me.

17If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak on My own accord and by My own authority.

18He who speaks on his own accord seeks glory and honor for himself. But He who seeks the glory and the honor of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness or deception in Him.

19“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. Why do you want to kill Me [for not keeping it]?”

20The crowd answered, “You have a demon [You are out of Your mind]! Who wants to kill You?”

21Jesus replied, “I did one work, and you are all astounded.

22For this reason Moses has given you [God’s law regarding] circumcision (not that it originated with Moses, but with the patriarchs) and you circumcise a man [even] on the Sabbath.

23If, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, a man undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, why are you angry with Me for making a man’s whole body well on the Sabbath?