John 7:21

I have done Better, I did. Comp. John 7:23.

one work The healing of the impotent man at Bethesda: it excited the astonishment of all as being wrought on the Sabbath. Christ reminds them that on that occasion all, and not the rulers only, were offended.

Most modern editors add to this verse the words translated -therefore" in John 7:22 [it is not S. John's favourite particle (see on John 7:15), but a preposition with a pronoun = for this cause, on account of this; -and ye all marvel on account of this." But this is cumbrous, and unlike S. John, who beginssentences with this phrase (John 6:16; John 6:18; John 8:47; John 10:17; John 12:39; mistranslated -therefore" in all cases) rather than ends them with it. The old arrangement is best.