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22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision[a] (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child[b] on the Sabbath.

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:22 tn Grk “gave you circumcision.”
  2. John 7:22 tn Grk “a man.” While the text literally reads “circumcise a man” in actual fact the practice of circumcising male infants on the eighth day after birth (see Phil 3:5) is primarily what is in view here.