John 7:20-25

New International Version

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. 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.”^(E)

Division Over Who Jesus Is

²⁵ At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?^(F)