You will circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. His reasoning goes like this: "You are angry with me because I healed a man on the Sabbath; yet you yourself violate the Sabbath to circumcise a boy when the eighth day falls on the Sabbath. You say because circumcision came from Abraham, it has priority over the Sabbath. The law of love and mercy is older yet; why be angry if it is obeyed on the Sabbath?" External standards. They went by how things looked, not by how they really were.

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