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Juan 7:24
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
John 8:15, Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 16:19, Psalms 58:1, Psalms 58:2, Psalms 82:2, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21, Proverbs 17:15, Proverbs 24:23, Isaiah 5:23, Isaiah 11:3, Isaiah 11:4, James 2:1, James 2:4, James 2:9
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:14 - General 1 Samuel 16:7 - looketh Job 34:4 - know Proverbs 31:9 - General Acts 4:19 - judge Acts 28:4 - No doubt 1 Corinthians 4:3 - it is 1 Corinthians 11:13 - General 2 Corinthians 10:7 - ye look
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Judge not according to the appearance,.... Or through respect of persons, and so as to please men, the Scribes and Pharisees; who had condemned the action of Christ, in curing the diseased man on the sabbath day, and sought to kill him for it:
but judge righteous judgment; give your sense and judgment of things, according to the truth and evidence of them; and do not find fault with that, which you yourselves allow of, and which Moses and his law, and your own practices, justify.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Judge not according to the appearance - Not as a thing first offers itself to you, without reflection or candor. In appearance, to circumcise a child on the Sabbath might be a violation of the law; yet you do it, and it is right. So, to appearance, it might be a violation of the Sabbath to heal a man, yet it is right to do works of necessity and mercy.
Judge righteous judgment - Candidly; looking at the law, and inquiring what its spirit really requires.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 24. Judge not according to the appearance — Attend to the law, not merely in the letter, but in its spirit and design. Learn that the law which commands men to rest on the Sabbath day is subordinate to the law of mercy and love, which requires them to be ever active to promote God's glory in the comfort and salvation of their fellow creatures; and endeavour to judge of the merit or demerit of an action, not from the first impression it may make upon your prejudices but from its tendency, and the motives of the person, as far as it is possible for you to acquaint yourselves with them; still believing the best, where you have no certain proof to the contrary.
