John 7:19-29 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 7:14-36

Here is, I. Christ's public preaching in the temple (John 7:14): He went up into the temple, and taught, according to his custom when he was at Jerusalem. His business was to preach the gospel of the kingdom, and he did it in every place of concourse. His sermon is not recorded, because, probably, it was to the same purport with the sermons he had preached in Galilee, which were recorded by the other evangelists. For the gospel is the same to the plain and to the polite. But that which is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 7:19-24

7:19-24 "Did not Moses give you the law--and not one of you really keeps it? Why do you try to kill me?" The crowd answered: "You are mad! Who is trying to kill you?" Jesus answered them: "I have done only one deed and you are all astonished by it. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it had its origin in Moses--it came down from your fathers) and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. If a man can be circumcised on the Sabbath, without breaking the law of Moses, are you angry at... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law ,.... After Christ had vindicated himself and his doctrine, he proceeds to reprove the Jews for their breaking the law, which contained the will of God: by which it appeared, that they were no proper judges of his doctrine, though they cavilled at it: the question he puts could not be denied by them; for though, properly speaking, God was the lawgiver, yet inasmuch as it was delivered by Moses, it is ascribed to him, and said to come by him; and it was put into... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:20

The people answered and said ,.... These seem to be the country people, who came from Galilee and other parts, who knew nothing of the designs of the Jerusalem Jews upon him; nor were they his downright enemies at least, but rather seemed to favour him, and were on his side, though greatly provoked to hear him talk after this manner: thou hast a devil ; or art possessed with one; thou talkest like one of the demoniacs, like a madman, one beside thyself; whom the devil has so much power... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:21

Jesus answered and said unto them ,.... Taking no notice of their passion, reproach, and blasphemy; but proceeding upon the thing he had in view, and which he was determined to reassume, and vindicate himself in; I have done one work ; that is, on the sabbath day; meaning, his cure of the man that had had a disorder eight and thirty years, who lay at Bethesda's pool; which single action, they charged with being a breach of the sabbath, he mentions with a view to their many, and daily... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:22

Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision ,.... The command of circumcision, which he renewed and established, Leviticus 12:3 ; (not because, or that it is of Moses ; originally, or that he was the first giver of it, for it was enjoined before his time; this is a correction of what is before said, giving a more accurate account of the rise of circumcision: but of the fathers) ; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom it was enjoined by God, and who practised it before the times of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:23

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision ,.... As it was certain in many instances he did: that the law of Moses might not be broken ; either the law concerning circumcision, which confirmed the law given to Abraham, and required it should be on the eighth day, let it fall when it would, even on a sabbath day; and therefore on that day, male children received circumcision, that that law might be kept, and not be broken: or else the law concerning the sabbath; and the sense be, if... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:24

Judge not according to the appearance ,.... Or through respect of persons, and so as to please men, the Scribes and Pharisees; who had condemned the action of Christ, in curing the diseased man on the sabbath day, and sought to kill him for it: but judge righteous judgment ; give your sense and judgment of things, according to the truth and evidence of them; and do not find fault with that, which you yourselves allow of, and which Moses and his law, and your own practices, justify. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:25

Then said some of them of Jerusalem ,.... Who were inhabitants of Jerusalem, and so are distinguished from the people, John 7:20 , who came up out of the country to the feast; so Jose ben Jochanan is called איש ירושלים , "a man of Jerusalem" F3 Pirke Abot, c. 1. sect. 4, 5. ; that is, an inhabitant of it: now these men living in the city, knew more of the temper and disposition, the designs and attempts, of the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, to take away the life of Christ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:26

But lo, he speaketh boldly ,.... And with great freedom, and openly and publicly in the temple, as if he had a licence from the chief priests for so doing: and they say nothing to him ; do not contradict him, or forbid him speaking; he goes on without control; though he takes great liberty in charging the Jews with an intention to kill him, in arguing from their practices in vindication of himself, and in suggesting that they judged in favour of men, and not according to the truth of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 7:14-36

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 7:19-24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 7:26

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