Yohanes 7:23

7:23 But if a male child ¹  is circumcised ²  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ³  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ⁴  on the Sabbath?

Yohanes 8:47

8:47 The one who belongs to ⁵  God listens and responds ⁶  to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, ⁷  because you don’t belong to God.” ⁸ 

Yohanes 9:41

9:41 Jesus replied, ⁹  “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, ¹⁰  but now because you claim that you can see, ¹¹  your guilt ¹²  remains.” ¹³ 

[7:23]  ¹ tn Grk “a man.” See the note on “male child” in the previous verse.

[7:23]  ² tn Grk “receives circumcision.”

[7:23]  ³ sn If a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken. The Rabbis counted 248 parts to a man’s body. In the Talmud (b. Yoma 85b) R. Eleazar ben Azariah (ca. a.d. 100) states: “If circumcision, which attaches to one only of the 248 members of the human body, suspends the Sabbath, how much more shall the saving of the whole body suspend the Sabbath?” So absolutely binding did rabbinic Judaism regard the command of Lev 12:3 to circumcise on the eighth day, that in the Mishnah m. Shabbat 18.3; 19.1, 2; and m. Nedarim 3.11 all hold that the command to circumcise overrides the command to observe the Sabbath.

[7:23]  ⁴ tn Or “made an entire man well.”

[8:47]  ⁵ tn Grk “who is of.”

[8:47]  ⁶ tn Grk “to God hears” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

[8:47]  ⁷ tn Grk “you do not hear” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

[8:47]  ⁸ tn Grk “you are not of God.”

[9:41]  ⁹ tn Grk “Jesus said to them.”

[9:41]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “you would not have sin.”

[9:41]  ¹¹ tn Grk “now because you say, ‘We see…’”

[9:41]  ¹² tn Or “your sin.”

[9:41]  ¹³ sn Because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains. The blind man received sight physically, and this led him to see spiritually as well. But the Pharisees, who claimed to possess spiritual sight, were spiritually blinded. The reader might recall Jesus’ words to Nicodemus in 3:10, “Are you the teacher of Israel and don’t understand these things?” In other words, to receive Jesus was to receive the light of the world, to reject him was to reject the light, close one’s eyes, and become blind. This is the serious sin of which Jesus had warned before (8:21-24). The blindness of such people was incurable since they had rejected the only cure that exists (cf. 12:39-41).