John Chapter 7 verse 24 Holy Bible
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
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Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.
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Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
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judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - Judge not according to appearance ? the superficial aspect of things, the merely formal side, the unexplained letter of the Law. Οψις id quod sub visum cadit res in conspicuo posita. According to that, the healing and the bed carrying consequent upon it would be a positive infraction of a certain enactment. But judge righteous judgment. Consider the case, and see that I have done, in this act of healing, less than you are doing yourselves, notwithstanding all your punctilio, and with a higher justification. The aorist κρίνατε involves probably "the one true and complete decision which the case admits" (Westcott).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Judge not according to the appearance.--He has put the case before them in its true light, I and from their own point of view. There was another Positive Precept of Moses which these judges were forgetting, though it, too, formed part of the first section of the Law read at Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 1:16-17). (Comp. Note on John 7:19.) Let them who profess to judge Him by the Law obey it, and form a just and honest opinion, and not be biased by the appearance of a mere technicality. Even if His work did fall under the condemnation of what they held to be the letter of the Mosaic law (comp. Note on John 5:10), they knew perfectly well--and their own practice as to circumcision proved this--that it did so in appearance only.