John 7:22

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Moses gave you circumcision (it is, of course, not from Moses, but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the sabbath.

Cross References

Genesis 21:4

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Leviticus 12:3

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Acts 7:8

Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.