The First Dialogue.^* 14When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple area and began to teach. 15^{* f} The Jews were amazed and said, “How does he know scripture without having studied?” 16Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me. 17Whoever chooses to do his will^* shall know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.^g 18Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him. 19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”^h 20The crowd answered, “You are possessed!^* Who is trying to kill you?”ⁱ 21Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work^* and all of you are amazed^j 22because of it. Moses gave you circumcision—not that it came from Moses but rather from the patriarchs—and you circumcise a man on the sabbath.^k 23If a man can receive circumcision on a sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole person well on a sabbath?^l 24Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly.”^m