Saying 53
- (53) His disciples said to him, "Is circumcision beneficial or not?"
He said to them, "If it were beneficial, their father would beget them already circumcised from their mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become completely profitable."
This is the same teaching as:
- Ga 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.
- Ro 10:12 ΒΆ For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Implied is that we are as God would have us right from the womb. Only conversion of the heart matters.