Albert Barnes Commentary John 7:23

"If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?" — John 7:23 (ASV)

That the law of Moses should not be broken. This was so that the law requiring circumcision to be done at a specified time would be kept, even if that occurred on the Sabbath.

Are you angry, etc.? The argument of Jesus is this:

"You yourselves, in interpreting the law about the Sabbath, allow a work of necessity to be done. You do what is necessary as an ordinance of religion, denoting separation from other nations, or external purity. Since you allow this, you ought also, for the same reason, to allow that a man should be completely restored to health—that a work of much more importance should be done."

We may learn here that it would be beneficial for all if they would not condemn others for what they themselves allow. People often accuse others of doing things that they themselves do in other ways.

Every whit whole. Literally, "I have restored the whole man to health," implying that the man's whole body was diseased, and that he had been entirely restored to health.