John 7:23
Good News Translation
If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' Law is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

New Revised Standard Version
If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath in order that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I healed a man’s whole body on the sabbath?

Contemporary English Version
in order to obey the Law of Moses. Why are you angry with me for making someone completely well on the Sabbath?

New American Bible
If a man can receive circumcision on a sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole person well on a sabbath?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?

Matthew 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?

I have made.

248 members of man, vacates the sabbath; how much more the whole body of a man!'

John 5:8,9,14-16 Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk. . . .

Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
22Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man. 23If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day? 24Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment.…
Cross References
Exodus 31:14
keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.

Matthew 12:2
And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.

Matthew 12:10
And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

John 5:9
And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the sabbath that day.

John 5:10
The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

John 7:21
Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder.

John 9:16
Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

John 7:22
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