History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

showed the groundlessness of their charge of selfexaltation.
Thus, in nothing was there left a chance
to answer him again.
Several months after this, the same case of
healing was under discussion:
"Jesus answered and said unto them, I have
done one work, and ye all marvel. Moses therefore
gave unto you circumcision (not because it is of
Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the Sabbathday
circumcise a man. If a man on the Sabbath day
receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should
not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have
made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath
day?" (John 7:21-23)
This Scripture contains our Lord's second
answer relative to healing the impotent man upon
the Sabbath. In his first answer he rested his
defense upon the fact that what he had done was
precisely the same as that which his Father had
done hitherto, that is, from the beginning of the
world; which implies that the Sabbath had existed
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