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?
27. But we know where he is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”