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20 The crowd answered, “You are possessed![a] Who is trying to kill you?”(A) 21 Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work[b] and all of you are amazed(B) 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.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:20 You are possessed: literally, “You have a demon.” The insane were thought to be possessed by a demoniacal spirit.
  2. 7:21 One work: the cure of the paralytic (Jn 5:1–9) because of the reference to the sabbath (Jn 7:22; 5:9–10).

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

21 Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle,(B) and you are all amazed. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision(C) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),(D) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.

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