New American Bible, Revised Edition

John 7:16-26 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

16. Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me.

17. Whoever chooses to do his will shall know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.

18. Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him.

19. Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

20. The crowd answered, “You are possessed! Who is trying to kill you?”

21. Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work and all of you are amazed

22. because of it. Moses gave you circumcision—not that it came from Moses but rather from the patriarchs—and you circumcise a man on the sabbath.

23. If a man can receive circumcision on a sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole person well on a sabbath?

24. Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly.”

25. So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?

26. And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Messiah?