John 7
v1
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
v2
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
v3
His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
v4
For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
v5
For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
v6
Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
v7
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
v8
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
v9
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
v10
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
v11
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?“
v12
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.”
v13
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
v14
But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
v15
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?“
v16
Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
v17
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.
v18
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.
v19
Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?“
v20
The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?“
v21
Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.
v22
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
v23
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?
v24
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
v25
Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
v26
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
v27
However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
v28
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.
v29
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
v30
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
v31
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?“
v32
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
v33
Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
v34
You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
v35
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?
v36
What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?“
v37
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!
v38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
v39
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.
v40
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
v41
Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
v42
Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, the village where David was?“
v43
So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
v44
Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
v45
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?“
v46
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!“
v47
The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
v48
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
v49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
v50
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
v51
“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?“
v52
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
v53
Everyone went to his own house,