John 7:21

THE MESSAGE

Jesus said, "I did one miraculous thing a few months ago, and you're still standing around getting all upset, wondering what I'm up to. Moses prescribed circumcision—originally it came not from Moses but from his ancestors—and so you circumcise a man, dealing with one part of his body, even if it's the Sabbath. You do this in order to preserve one item in the Law of Moses. So why are you upset with me because I made a man's whole body well on the Sabbath? Don't be nitpickers; use your head—and heart!—to discern what is right, to test what is authentically right."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I performed one work,

King James Version (1611)
Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I haue done one worke, and yee all marueile.

King James Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

English Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel at it.

New American Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, "I did one deed, and you all are astonished.

New Century Version
Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.

Amplified Bible
Jesus replied, "I did one work, and you are all astounded.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jesus answered them, "I did one deed, and you all marvel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel.

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, "I did one miracle, and you are all astonished.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered: I worked one miracle, and it amazed you.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua answered them, "I did one thing; and because of this, all of you are amazed.

Darby Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle on a Sabbath day, and you were all surprised.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Iesus answered, and saide to them, I haue done one worke, and ye all maruaile.

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and all of you marvel.

Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "I performed one miracle, and you were all surprised.

Lexham English Bible
Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished.

Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and you all marvel.

American Standard Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because thereof.

Bible in Basic English
This was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at it.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

International Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "I performed one work, and all of you are astonished.

Etheridge Translation
Jeshu answered and said to them, One work have I performed, and all of you wondered on this account.

Murdock Translation
Jesus replied, and said to them: I have wrought one work, and ye all wonder.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus aunswered, & said vnto the: I haue done one worke, & ye al marueyle.

English Revised Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel.

World English Bible
Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and ye all marvel at it.

Weymouth's New Testament
"One deed I have done," replied Jesus, "and you are all full of wonder.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jhesus answerde, and seide to hem, Y haue don o werk, and alle ye wondren.

Update Bible Version
Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and you all marvel because thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

New English Translation
Jesus replied, "I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

New King James Version
Jesus answered and said to them, "I did one work, and you all marvel.

New Living Translation
Jesus replied, "I did one miracle on the Sabbath, and you were amazed.

New Life Bible
Jesus said to them, "I did one work and you are surprised.

New Revised Standard
Jesus answered them, "I performed one work, and all of you are astonished.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jesus answered, and said unto them - One work, I did, and ye, all, are marvelling:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "I did one deed, and you all marvel at it.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus answered and sayde to them: I have done one worke and ye all marvayle.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and ye all wonder,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus answered and sayde: One worke haue I done, and ye all maruayle.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Jesus answered them, I perform'd one single miracle on the sabbath, and does that alarm you?

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus said, "I showed y'all one miracle, and you were astonished.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴With the Feast already half over, Jesus showed up in the Temple, teaching. The Jews were impressed, but puzzled: "How does he know so much without being schooled?" ¹⁶Jesus said, "I didn't make this up. What I teach comes from the One who sent me. Anyone who wants to do his will can test this teaching and know whether it's from God or whether I'm making it up. A person making things up tries to make himself look good. But someone trying to honor the one who sent him sticks to the facts and doesn't tamper with reality. It was Moses, wasn't it, who gave you God's Law? But none of you are living it. So why are you trying to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd said, "You're crazy! Who's trying to kill you? You're demon-possessed." ²¹Jesus said, "I did one miraculous thing a few months ago, and you're still standing around getting all upset, wondering what I'm up to. Moses prescribed circumcision—originally it came not from Moses but from his ancestors—and so you circumcise a man, dealing with one part of his body, even if it's the Sabbath. You do this in order to preserve one item in the Law of Moses. So why are you upset with me because I made a man's whole body well on the Sabbath? Don't be nitpickers; use your head—and heart!—to discern what is right, to test what is authentically right." ²⁵That's when some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the one they were out to kill? And here he is out in the open, saying whatever he pleases, and no one is stopping him. Could it be that the rulers know that he is, in fact, the Messiah? And yet we know where this man came from. The Messiah is going to come out of nowhere. Nobody is going to know where he comes from." ²⁸That provoked Jesus, who was teaching in the Temple, to cry out, "Yes, you think you know me and where I'm from, but that's not where I'm from. I didn't set myself up in business. My true origin is in the One who sent me, and you don't know him at all. I come from him—that's how I know him. He sent me here." ³⁰They were looking for a way to arrest him, but not a hand was laid on him because it wasn't yet God's time. Many from the crowd committed themselves in faith to him, saying, "Will the Messiah, when he comes, provide better or more convincing evidence than this?" ³²The Pharisees, alarmed at this seditious undertow going through the crowd, teamed up with the high priests and sent their police to arrest him. Jesus rebuffed them: "I am with you only a short time. Then I go on to the One who sent me. You will look for me, but you won't find me. Where I am, you can't come." ³⁵The Jews put their heads together. "Where do you think he is going that we won't be able to find him? Do you think he is about to travel to the Greek world to teach the Jews? What is he talking about, anyway: ‘You will look for me, but you won't find me,' and ‘Where I am, you can't come'?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: John 5:9-11

Reciprocal: Matthew 12:2 - Behold Luke 13:15 - doth not John 9:14 - General Acts 8:13 - and wondered Philippians 3:5 - Circumcised

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, "It's all over. It's the end of the human race. The violence is everywhere; I'm making a clean sweep.

Genesis 6:17
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.

Genesis 7:17
The flood continued forty days and the waters rose and lifted the ship high over the Earth. The waters kept rising, the flood deepened on the Earth, the ship floated on the surface. The flood got worse until all the highest mountains were covered—the high-water mark reached twenty feet above the crest of the mountains. Everything died. Anything that moved—dead. Birds, farm animals, wild animals, the entire teeming exuberance of life—dead. And all people—dead. Every living, breathing creature that lived on dry land died; he wiped out the whole works—people and animals, crawling creatures and flying birds, every last one of them, gone. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived.

Isaiah 24:19
The Landscape Will Be a Moonscape Danger ahead! God 's about to ravish the earth and leave it in ruins, Rip everything out by the roots and send everyone scurrying: priests and laypeople alike, owners and workers alike, celebrities and nobodies alike, buyers and sellers alike, bankers and beggars alike, the haves and have-nots alike. The landscape will be a moonscape, totally wasted. And why? Because God says so. He's issued the orders. The earth turns gaunt and gray, the world silent and sad, sky and land lifeless, colorless. Earth is polluted by its very own people, who have broken its laws, Disrupted its order, violated the sacred and eternal covenant. Therefore a curse, like a cancer, ravages the earth. Its people pay the price of their sacrilege. They dwindle away, dying out one by one. No more wine, no more vineyards, no more songs or singers. The laughter of castanets is gone, the shouts of celebrants, gone, the laughter of fiddles, gone. No more parties with toasts of champagne. Serious drinkers gag on their drinks. The chaotic cities are unlivable. Anarchy reigns. Every house is boarded up, condemned. People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever— no more joy for this old world. The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble. That's the way it will be on this earth. This is the fate of all nations: An olive tree shaken clean of its olives, a grapevine picked clean of its grapes. But there are some who will break into glad song. Out of the west they'll shout of God 's majesty. Yes, from the east God 's glory will ascend. Every island of the sea Will broadcast God 's fame, the fame of the God of Israel. From the four winds and the seven seas we hear the singing: "All praise to the Righteous One!" But I said, "That's all well and good for somebody, but all I can see is doom, doom, and more doom." All of them at one another's throats, yes, all of them at one another's throats. Terror and pits and booby traps are everywhere, whoever you are. If you run from the terror, you'll fall into the pit. If you climb out of the pit, you'll get caught in the trap. Chaos pours out of the skies. The foundations of earth are crumbling. Earth is smashed to pieces, earth is ripped to shreds, earth is wobbling out of control, Earth staggers like a drunk, sways like a shack in a high wind. Its piled-up sins are too much for it. It collapses and won't get up again. That's when God will call on the carpet rebel powers in the skies and Rebel kings on earth. They'll be rounded up like prisoners in a jail, Corralled and locked up in a jail, and then sentenced and put to hard labor. Shamefaced moon will cower, humiliated, red-faced sun will skulk, disgraced, Because God -of-the-Angel-Armies will take over, ruling from Mount Zion and Jerusalem, Splendid and glorious before all his leaders.

Zephaniah 1:3
"Men and women and animals, including birds and fish— Anything and everything that causes sin—will go, but especially people.

Romans 8:22
All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus answered and said unto them,.... Taking no notice of their passion, reproach, and blasphemy; but proceeding upon the thing he had in view, and which he was determined to reassume, and vindicate himself in;

I have done one work; that is, on the sabbath day; meaning, his cure of the man that had had a disorder eight and thirty years, who lay at Bethesda's pool; which single action, they charged with being a breach of the sabbath, he mentions with a view to their many, and daily violations of it:

and ye all marvel; at it, as a thing unheard of, as a most shocking piece of iniquity, as an intolerable evil; wondering that any man should have the front, to bid another take up his bed and walk, on the sabbath day: they did not marvel at the miracle that was wrought; but were amazed, offended, and disturbed, at its being done on the sabbath day.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

One work - The healing of the man on the Sabbath, John 5:0.

Ye all marvel - You all wonder or are amazed, and particularly that it was done on the Sabbath. This was the particular ground of astonishment, that he should dare to do what they esteemed a violation of the Sabbath.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:21. I have done one work — That of curing the impotent man, already referred to. See John 5:9.

And ye all marvel. — or, ye all marvel because of this. Some have δια τουτο, in connection with θαυμαζετε, which the common pointing makes the beginning of the next verse, and which, in our common version, is translated therefore; but this word conveys no meaning at all, in the connection in which it is thus placed. Proof of this construction Kypke gives from Themistius, Strabo, and AElian. All the eminent critics are on the side of this arrangement of the words.