John 7:21 Cross References - Moffatt

²¹ Jesus answered them, "I have only performed one deed, and yet you are all amazed at it.

² Now in Jerusalem there is a bath beside the sheep-pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha; it has five porticoes, ³ where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble. ⁴ For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with]. ⁵ Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years. ⁶ Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?" ⁷ The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Get up, lift your mat, and walk." ⁹ And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat." ¹¹ He replied, "But the man who healed me, he told me, 'Lift your mat and walk'."

²³ Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?