19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?

21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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19 Has not Moses given you the law?(A) Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”(B)

20 “You are demon-possessed,”(C) the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

21 Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle,(D) and you are all amazed. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision(E) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),(F) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 23 Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”(G)

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