Posted: May 25, 2020 9:34 am
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John 7:22-24 has Jesus say
Jesus was preaching/teaching at a temple at a festival. Prior to those verses, -
After vv. 22-24,
1 Jews of that time saw circumcision as healing the penis, and Jesus being portrayed arguing for his 'big healing' on the sabbath as well as their little healing. Though some have said that when Jesus claimed he healed a man's whole body, he restored his foreskin, a proposition debated by others.
A more noteworthy aspect 7:22a - that circumcision if from the patriarchs, not from Moses. However, that negates the statements in Genesis 17 and Leviticus 12 that circumcision came from God.
That is quite an interesting dilemma. It does, however, paved the way for accounts of Peter to attack circumcision, and for Paul to attack those who promote it, though why Paul is not consistent in his approach to circumcision is also an interesting dilemma.
John 7:22-24 has Jesus say
- 22 Moses gave you circumcision (it is, of course, not from Moses, but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the sabbath. 23 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 body1 on the sabbath? 24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
Jesus was preaching/teaching at a temple at a festival. Prior to those verses, -
- 15 The Jews were astonished at it, saying, “How does this man have such learning /[knows his letters], when he has never been taught?” 16 Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me. 17 Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. 18 Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.
19 “Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?” 20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”
After vv. 22-24,
- 25 Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? 26 And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? 27 Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah [the Christ] comes, no one will know where he is from.” 28 Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. 29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
1 Jews of that time saw circumcision as healing the penis, and Jesus being portrayed arguing for his 'big healing' on the sabbath as well as their little healing. Though some have said that when Jesus claimed he healed a man's whole body, he restored his foreskin, a proposition debated by others.
A more noteworthy aspect 7:22a - that circumcision if from the patriarchs, not from Moses. However, that negates the statements in Genesis 17 and Leviticus 12 that circumcision came from God.
That is quite an interesting dilemma. It does, however, paved the way for accounts of Peter to attack circumcision, and for Paul to attack those who promote it, though why Paul is not consistent in his approach to circumcision is also an interesting dilemma.