7:21-24 What was the "one work" Jesus refers to here?
7:21-24 What was the "one work" Jesus refers to here?
Jesus is referring here to His healing of the paralytic at the pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath (CP Jn 5:1-16).
Jesus rebuked the Jews in Jn 7:21-24 for accusing Him of breaking the law of Moses by healing on the Sabbath, when they themselves were able to perform circumcisions on the Sabbath without breaking the law, because the covenant of circumcision pre-dated the law ("… not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers" (CP Gen 17:9-14)).
Jesus contended that to make a man whole on the Sabbath was just as important as circumcising on the Sabbath, and He told the Jews to judge justly, according to the reality of the circumstances, not unjustly according to appearances, just because it was the Sabbath.