John 7:22

New International Reader's Version

Moses gave you circumcision, and so you circumcise a child on the Sabbath day. But circumcision did not really come from Moses. It came from Abraham.

Cross References

Genesis 21:4

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him. He did it exactly as God had commanded him.

Leviticus 12:3

On the eighth day the boy must be circumcised.

Acts 7:8

Then God made a covenant with Abraham. God told him that circumcision would show who the members of the covenant were. Abraham became Isaac’s father. He circumcised Isaac eight days after he was born. Later, Isaac became Jacob’s father. Jacob had 12 sons. They became the founders of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Galatians 3:17

Here is what I mean. The law came 430 years after the promise. But the law does not get rid of God’s covenant and promise. The covenant had already been made by God. So the law does not do away with the promise.