17. Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes from God or whether I speak on my own authority.
18. A person who speaks on his own authority is trying to gain glory for himself. But he who wants glory for the one who sent him is honest, and there is nothing false in him.
19. Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? But not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
20. “You have a demon in you!” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
21. Jesus answered, “I performed one miracle, and you were all surprised.
22. Moses ordered you to circumcise your sons (although it was not Moses but your ancestors who started it), and so you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.
23. If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' Law is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
24. Stop judging by external standards, and judge by true standards.”
25. Some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Isn't this the man the authorities are trying to kill?
26. Look! He is talking in public, and they say nothing against him! Can it be that they really know that he is the Messiah?
27. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from. And we all know where this man comes from.”