John 7–8

Chapter 7

Jesus Teaches at the Feast

¹After 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 publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself 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 opportune.

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

⁸“Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because ^aMy time has not yet fully come.”

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 if, in secret.

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

¹²There 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 people astray.”

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

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

^15aThe Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man ^bbecome learned, having never been educated?”

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

¹⁷“^aIf anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether 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 carries out 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 ¹deed, 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“Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. ^aThe rulers do not really know that this is ¹the Christ, do they?

²⁷“However, ^awe know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, 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; and 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 ¹the Christ comes, He will not perform more ^2csigns than those which this man has, will He?”

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering 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? He is not intending to go to ^cthe Dispersion among ^dthe Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

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 to receive; for ^bthe Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^cglorified.

Division of People over Jesus

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

⁴¹Others were saying, “This is ¹the Christ.” Still others were saying, “^aSurely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

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

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

^44aSome of them wanted 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 the way this man speaks.”

⁴⁷The Pharisees then answered them, “^aYou have not also been led astray, have you?

⁴⁸“^aNo one of ^bthe rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

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“^aOur Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

⁵²They answered him, “^aYou are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

⁵³¹Everyone went to his home.

Chapter 8

The Adulterous Woman

¹But Jesus went to ^athe Mount of Olives.

²Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and ^aHe sat down and began to teach them.

³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,

⁴they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.

⁵“Now in the Law ^aMoses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?”

⁶They were saying this, ^atesting Him, ^bso that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

⁷But when they persisted in asking Him, ^aHe straightened up, and said to them, “^bHe who is without sin among you, let him be the ^cfirst to throw a stone at her.”

⁸Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.

⁹When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court.

^10aStraightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”

¹¹She said, “No one, ¹Lord.” And Jesus said, “^aI do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on ^bsin no more.”

Jesus Is the Light of the World

¹²Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “^aI am the Light of the world; ^bhe who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

¹³So the Pharisees said to Him, “^aYou are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not ¹true.”

¹⁴Jesus answered and said to them, “^aEven if I testify about Myself, My testimony is ¹true, for I know ^bwhere I came from and where I am going; but ^cyou do not know where I come from or where I am going.

¹⁵“^aYou judge ¹according to the flesh; ^bI am not judging anyone.

¹⁶“But even ^aif I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.

¹⁷“Even in ^ayour law it has been written that the testimony of ^btwo men is ¹true.

¹⁸“I am He who testifies about Myself, and ^athe Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

¹⁹So they were saying to Him, “Where is Your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father; ^aif you knew Me, you would know My Father also.”

²⁰These words He spoke in ^athe treasury, as ^bHe taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because ^cHis hour had not yet come.

²¹Then He said again to them, “I go away, and ^ayou will seek Me, and ^bwill die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”

²²So ^athe Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘^bWhere I am going, you cannot come’?”

²³And He was saying to them, “^aYou are from below, I am from above; ^byou are of this world, ^cI am not of this world.

²⁴“Therefore I said to you that you ^awill die in your sins; for unless you believe that ^1bI am He, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵So they were saying to Him, “Who are You?” Jesus said to them, “¹What have I been saying to you from the beginning?

²⁶“I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but ^aHe who sent Me is true; and ^bthe things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.”

²⁷They did not realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.

²⁸So Jesus said, “When you ^alift up the Son of Man, then you will know that ^1bI am He, and ^cI do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.

²⁹“And He who sent Me is with Me; ^aHe ¹has not left Me alone, for ^bI always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”

³⁰As He spoke these things, ^amany came to believe in Him.

The Truth Will Make You Free

³¹So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “^aIf you continue in My word, then you are truly ^bdisciples of Mine;

³²and ^ayou will know the truth, and ^bthe truth will make you free.”

³³They answered Him, “^aWe are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aeveryone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

³⁵“^aThe slave does not remain in the house forever; ^bthe son does remain forever.

³⁶“So if the Son ^amakes you free, you will be free indeed.

³⁷“I know that you are ^aAbraham’s descendants; yet ^byou seek to kill Me, because My word ¹has no place in you.

³⁸“I speak the things which I have seen ¹with My Father; therefore you…