19. Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me? ”
20. “You have a demon! ” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You? ”
21. “I did one work, and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered.
22. “Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision — not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers — and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23. If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?
24. Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”
25. Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?
26. Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?
27. But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”
28. As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;
29. I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
30. Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.
31. However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will He? ”
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.