The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ courts!

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

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

“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!