John 7:21 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²¹ "There was one thing I did," replied Jesus, "at which you are all still wondering.

² There is in Jerusalem, near the Sheep-gate, a Bath with five colonnades round it. It is called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.' ³ In these colonnades a large number of afflicted people were lying--blind, lame, and crippled. ⁴ OMITTED TEXT ⁵ One man who was there had been afflicted for thirty-eight years. ⁶ Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?" ⁷ "I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me." ⁸ "Stand up," said Jesus, "take up your mat, and walk about." ⁹ The man was cured immediately, and took up his mat and began to walk about. ¹⁰ Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat." ¹¹ "The man who cured me," he answered, "said to me 'Take up your mat and walk about.'"

²³ When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?