John 7:16-24 So Jesus told them, “I’m not teaching you my own thoughts, but those of God who sent me. ¹⁷If any of you really determines to do God’s will, then you will certainly know whether my teaching is from God or merely my own.
18 Anyone presenting his own ideas is looking for praise for himself, but anyone seeking to honor the one who sent him is a good and true person. ¹⁹ None of you obeys the laws of Moses! So why pick on me for breaking them? Why kill me for this?”
20 The crowd replied, “You’re out of your mind! Who’s trying to kill you?” ²¹,²²,²³ Jesus replied, “I worked on the Sabbath by healing a man, and you were surprised. But you work on the Sabbath, too, whenever you obey Moses’ law of circumcision (actually, however, this tradition of circumcision is older than the Mosaic law); for if the correct time for circumcising your children falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it, as you should. So why should I be condemned for making a man completely well on the Sabbath?
24 Think this through and you will see that I am right.” TLBV