““Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. John 7 contains 53 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.