John 7

CHAPTER 7

Jesus Teaches at the Feast of Booths

¹And after these things Jesus ^awas walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because ^bthe Jews ^cwere seeking to kill Him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, ^athe Feast of Booths, was near.

³Therefore His ^abrothers said to Him, “Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your ^bdisciples also may see Your works which You are doing.

⁴“For no one does anything in secret ¹when he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself publicly to the world.”

⁵For not even His ^abrothers were believing in Him.

⁶So Jesus ^*said to them, “^aMy time is not yet here, but your time is always here.

⁷“^aThe world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness about it, that ^bits deeds are evil.

⁸“Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not ¹yet going up to this feast because ^aMy time has not yet been fulfilled.”

⁹Having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰But when His ^abrothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as in secret.

^11aSo the Jews ^bwere seeking Him at the feast and saying, “Where is He?”

¹²And there was much grumbling among the crowds concerning Him; ^asome were saying, “He is a good man”; others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He leads the crowd astray.”

¹³Yet no one was speaking openly about Him for ^afear of the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was now the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to ^ateach.

^15aThe Jews then were marveling, saying, “How has this man ^bbecome learned, not having been educated?”

¹⁶So Jesus answered them and said, “^aMy teaching is not Mine, but from Him who sent Me.

¹⁷“^aIf anyone is willing to do His will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is of God or I speak from Myself.

¹⁸“He who speaks from himself ^aseeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

¹⁹“^aDid not Moses give you the Law? And yet none of you does the Law. Why do you ^bseek to kill Me?”

²⁰The crowd answered, “^aYou have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?”

²¹Jesus answered them, “I did ^aone work, and you all marvel.

²²“For this reason ^aMoses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from ^bthe fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

²³“^aIf a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

²⁴“Do not ^ajudge according to appearance, but ¹judge with righteous judgment.”

²⁵So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill?

²⁶“And look, He is speaking openly, and they are saying nothing to Him. ^aDo the rulers truly know that this is the ¹Christ?

²⁷“However, ^awe know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.”

²⁸Then Jesus cried out in the temple, ^ateaching and saying, “^bYou both know Me and know where I am from; and ^cI have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

²⁹“^aI know Him, because ^bI am from Him, and ^cHe sent Me.”

³⁰So they ^awere seeking to seize Him; ¹yet no man laid his hand on Him, because His ^bhour had not yet come.

³¹But ^amany of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, “^bWhen the ¹Christ comes, will He do more ^2csigns than this man did?”

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd ¹whispering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent ^aofficers to ^bseize Him.

³³Therefore Jesus said, “^aFor a little while longer I am with you, then ^bI go to Him who sent Me.

³⁴“^aYou will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

^35aThe Jews then said to one another, “^bWhere does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? Is He intending to go to ^cthe Dispersion among ^dthe Greeks and teach the Greeks?

³⁶“What is this statement that He said, ‘^aYou will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

³⁷Now on ^athe last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “^1bIf anyone is thirsty, ²let him come to Me and drink.

³⁸“He who believes in Me, ^aas the Scripture said, ‘From ¹his innermost being will flow rivers of ^bliving water.’”

³⁹But this He spoke ^aof the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were going to receive; for ^bthe Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^cglorified.

Division of People over Jesus

⁴⁰Some of the crowd therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This truly is ^athe Prophet.”

⁴¹Others were saying, “This is the ¹Christ.” Still others were saying, “^aNo, for is the ²Christ going to come from Galilee?

⁴²“Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from ^athe seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

⁴³So ^aa division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

^44aSome of them were wanting to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

⁴⁵The ^aofficers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

⁴⁶The ^aofficers answered, “^bNever has a man spoken like this!”

⁴⁷The Pharisees then answered them, “^aHave you also been led astray?

⁴⁸“^aHave any of ^bthe rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

⁴⁹“But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”

^50aNicodemus (he who came to Him before), being one of them, ^*said to them,

⁵¹“^aDoes our Law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing?”

⁵²They answered him, “^aAre you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

⁵³¹[Everyone went to his home.