The Pulpit Commentary on John 7:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

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).

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