18. “He who speaks from himself is seeking his own esteem, but He who seeks the esteem of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.
19. “Did not Mosheh give you the Torah? Yet not one of you does the Torah! Why do you seek to kill Me?”
20. The crowd answered and said, “You have a demon, who seeks to kill You?”
21. יהושע answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you all marvel.
22. “Because of this Mosheh has given you the circumcision – though it is not from Mosheh, but from the fathers – and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23. “If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Torah of Mosheh should not be broken, are you wroth with Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?
24. “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
25. Therefore some of them from Yerushalayim said, “Is this not He whom they are seeking to kill?
26. “And see! He speaks boldly, and they say none at all to Him. Could it be that the rulers truly know that this is truly the Messiah?
27. “But we know where this One is from. And when the Messiah comes, no one knows where He is from.”
28. יהושע therefore cried out in the Set-apart Place, teaching and saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from. And I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
29. “But I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
30. So they were seeking to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.