23. This shows that someone can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the Law of Moses. So why are you angry with me for healing a person’s whole body on the Sabbath day?
24. Stop judging by the way things look. Be fair and judge by what is really right.”
25. Then some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said, “This is the man they are trying to kill.
26. But he is teaching where everyone can see and hear him. And no one is trying to stop him from teaching. Maybe the leaders have decided that he really is the Messiah.
27. But when the real Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from. And we know where this man’s home is.”