John 7:24 → Leviticus 19:15

Leviticus 19 orders Israel's life together under God's holiness, and verse 15 guards the court: "you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly." The Hebrew idiom for partiality turns on the face (pānîm, H6440), rendered in the LXX with πρόσωπον (G4383), and the verse ends with judging (κρίνω, G2919) in righteousness (G1343). Jesus' command, "Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly" (John 7:24), sets the same judging-in-righteousness against judging by appearance (ὄψις, G3799); compare "man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7). The tie is clear in sense, though not a citation. Its edge in John is that the crowd is judging Jesus Himself by the surface of a Sabbath healing. Yet John has already shown who judges rightly: "My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will" (John 5:30), the same Greek pair (G1342 + G2920) that stands behind "judging justly." The man they misjudge is the just Judge, and His verdict over whoever hears and believes is life, not condemnation (John 5:24).