John Chapter 7 Back Next{7:1} After these things,
Jesus was walking in
Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in
Judea, because the
Jews sought to kill him.
{7:2} Now the
feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
{7:3} His
brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your
disciples also may see your works which you do.
{7:4} For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
{7:5} For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
{7:6} Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
{7:7} The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
{7:8} You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."
{7:9} Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
{7:10} But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
{7:11} The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
{7:12} There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."
{7:13} Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
{7:14} But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
{7:15} The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"
{7:16} Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
{7:17} If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
{7:18} He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
{7:19} Didn't Moses give you the
law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
{7:20} The multitude answered, "You have a
demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
{7:21} Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
{7:22} Moses has given you
circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the
fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
{7:23} If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
{7:24} Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
{7:25} Therefore some of them of
Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?
{7:26} Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the
Christ?
{7:27} However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."
{7:28} Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
{7:29} I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
{7:30} They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his
hour had not yet come.
{7:31} But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"
{7:32} The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
{7:33} Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
{7:34} You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
{7:35} The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the
Dispersion among the
Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
{7:36} What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"
{7:37} Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and
drink!
{7:38} He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
{7:39} But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
{7:40} Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."
{7:41} Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
{7:42} Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of
David,[
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Bethlehem,[
Ref] the village where David was?"
{7:43} So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
{7:44} Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
{7:45} The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
{7:46} The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
{7:47} The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?
{7:48} Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
{7:49} But this multitude that doesn't know the law is
accursed."
{7:50} Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
{7:51} "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
{7:52} They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.[
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{7:53} Everyone went to his own house,
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