John 7:23

²³For if the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it so as not to break the law of Moses. So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the Sabbath?

John 7 plunges us into the heart of the Festival of Booths, where Jesus’s own brothers urge him to seek public fame, and the crowds are divided over his identity. The chapter captures the mounting tension between belief and unbelief, as Jesus teaches openly in the temple, claims to