22. Moses gave you circumcision, and so you circumcise a child on the Sabbath day. But circumcision did not really come from Moses. It came from Abraham.
23. You circumcise a child on the Sabbath day. You think that if you do, you won't break the law of Moses. Then why are you angry with me? I healed a whole man on the Sabbath!
24. "Stop judging only by what you see. Judge correctly."
25. Then some of the people of Jerusalem began asking questions. They said, "Isn't this the man some people are trying to kill?
26. Here he is! He is speaking openly. They aren't saying a word to him. Have the authorities really decided that he is the Christ?
27. But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."
28. Jesus was still teaching in the temple courtyard. He cried out, "Yes, you know me. And you know where I am from. I am not here on my own. The One who sent me is true. You do not know him.
29. But I know him. I am from him, and he sent me."
30. When he said this, they tried to arrest him. But no one laid a hand on him. His time had not yet come.
31. Still, many people in the crowd put their faith in him. They said, "How will it be when the Christ comes? Will he do more miraculous signs than this man?"
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering things like this about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.