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Consider therefore. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it began with Moses, but with your earlier forefathers), and even on a Sabbath day you circumcise a child.
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If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?
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Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."
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Some however of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are wanting to kill?
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But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?
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And yet we know this man, and we know where he is from; but as for the Christ, when He comes, no one can tell where He is from."
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Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.
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I know Him, because I came from Him, and He sent me."
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On hearing this they wanted to arrest Him; yet not a hand was laid on Him, because His time had not yet come.
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But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"
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The Pharisees heard the people thus expressing their various doubts about Him, and the High Priests and the Pharisees sent some officers to apprehend Him.