John 7:22-23

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 7:22

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 7:22

But of the fathers - That is, it came from the patriarchs. Circumcision was not, properly speaking, one of the laws of the Mosaic institution, it having been given at first to Abraham, and continued among his posterity till the giving of the law: Genesis 17:9 , Genesis 17:10 , etc. Ye - circumcise a man - That is, a male child: for every male child was circumcised when eight days old; and if the eighth day after its birth happened to be a Sabbath, it was nevertheless circumcised,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 7:23

Every whit whole - The law of circumcision required the removal of a small portion of flesh, which was considered a blot and reproach among the Hebrews, because it confounded them with the nations who were not in covenant with God. Christ, to this, opposes the complete cure of the infirm man, who was diseased throughout his whole body: if the one was permitted on the Sabbath day, for the reason already alleged, surely the other had stronger reasons to recommend it. Some think that the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 7:22

Verse 22 22.Therefore Moses gave you circumcision The particle therefore appears to be unsuitable; and, accordingly, some take διὰ τούτο (on this account, or therefore) in the sense of διὰ τούτο, (because;) but the Greek syntax is unfavourable to their opinion. (189) I explain it simply as meaning, that circumcision was enjoined in such a manner that the practice of that symbolical rite was necessary even on the Sabbath-day Therefore, says he; that is, it has in this manner been sufficiently... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 7:1-53

John 7:1-53 . consists of three distinct parts: Verses 7:1-8:11 3. Christ as the Source of truth. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 7:19-24

Justification of his conduct. The allusion to unrighteousness is the point of transition from Christ's teaching to his conduct. I. HE IS CHARGED BY THE JEWS WITH BREAKING THE SABBATH LAW . 1 . He had healed the impotent man at a former visit to Jerusalem on the sabbath day. "I have done one work, and ye all marvel." 2 . The Jews would have stoned him as a transgressor for the act. " Why do ye seek to kill me?" He knows the designs of the rulers, though... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 7:20-24

(3) Treatment of the ignorance and insolence of the multitude. read more

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