21. Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work, and you are all astonished.
22. Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is 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 would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?
24. Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!”
25. Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, “Is this not the one whom they are seeking to kill?
26. And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?
27. Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes—no one knows where he is from!”