Reference

John 7:23

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

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Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

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If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

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Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

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Seventh-Day Sabbath

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