John 7:23

7:23

law of Moses is ... broken <3363 3551 3475 3089> [that the law of Moses should not be broken. or, without breaking the law of Moses.]

I made <4160> [I have made.]

Rather, "I have healed a whole man" [holos <\\See definition 3650\\> anthropos <\\See definition 444\\>,] and not the circumcised member only. This reasoning was in perfect accordance with the principles of the Jews. So Tanchuma, "Circumcision, which is performed on one of the 248 members of man, vacates the sabbath; how much more the whole body of a man!"

John 5:16

5:16

began persecuting <1377> [persecute.]

Now <2532 2212> [and sought.]

John 7:22

7:22

practice of circumcision <4061> [circumcision.]

John 19:31

19:31

because <1893> [because.]

so that ... bodies ............ that <3363 1565 2443 4983> [that the.]

so that ............ Sabbath ... that Sabbath <3363 1565 2443 4521> [that sabbath.]

victims <846> [their.]

Lactantius says that it was a custom to break the legs of criminals upon the cross; which was done, we are told, at the instep with an iron mallet; and appears to have been a kind of coup de grace, the sooner to put them out of pain.