John 7
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Jesus Goes to the Feast of Booths
1After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He didn’t want to travel around in Judea. That was because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. 2The Jewish Feast of Booths was near. 3Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea. Then your disciples there will see the works that you do. 4No one who wants to be well known does things in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5Even Jesus’ own brothers did not believe in him.
6So Jesus told them, “The time for me to show who I really am is not here yet. For you, any time would be the right time. 7The people of the world can’t hate you. But they hate me. This is because I am a witness that their works are evil. 8You go to the feast. I am not going up to this feast. This is because my time has not yet fully come.” 9After he said this, he stayed in Galilee.
10But when his brothers had left for the feast, he went also. But he went secretly, not openly. 11At the feast the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus. They were asking, “Where is he?”
12Many people in the crowd were whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”
Others replied, “No. He fools the people.” 13But no one would say anything about him openly. They were afraid of the leaders.
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
14Jesus did nothing until halfway through the feast. Then he went up to the temple courtyard and began to teach. 15The Jews there were amazed. They asked, “How did this man learn so much without being taught?”
16Jesus answered, “What I teach is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. 17Here is how someone can find out whether my teaching comes from God or from me. That person must choose to do what God wants them to do. 18Whoever speaks on their own does it to get personal honor. But someone who works for the honor of the one who sent him is truthful. Nothing about him is false. 19Didn’t Moses give you the law? But not one of you obeys the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
20“You are controlled by demons,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
21Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22Moses gave you circumcision, and so you circumcise a child on the Sabbath day. But circumcision did not really come from Moses. It came from Abraham. 23You circumcise a boy on the Sabbath day. You think that if you do, you won’t break the law of Moses. Then why are you angry with me? I healed a man’s entire body on the Sabbath day! 24Stop judging only by what you see. Judge in the right way.”
People Don’t Agree About Who Jesus Is
25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began asking questions. They said, “Isn’t this the man some people are trying to kill? 26Here he is! He is speaking openly. They aren’t saying a word to him. Have the authorities really decided that he is the Messiah? 27But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28Jesus was still teaching in the temple courtyard. He cried out, “Yes, you know me. And you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority. The one who sent me is true. You do not know him. 29But I know him. I am from him, and he sent me.”
30When he said this, they tried to arrest him. But no one laid a hand on him. The time for him to show who he really was had not yet come. 31Still, many people in the crowd believed in him. They said, “How will it be when the Messiah comes? Will he do more signs than this man?”
32The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering things like this about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
33Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time. Then I will go to the one who sent me. 34You will look for me, but you won’t find me. You can’t come where I am going.”
35The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man plan to go? Does he think we can’t find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks? Will he go there to teach the Greeks? 36What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me’? And what did he mean when he said, ‘You can’t come where I am going’?”
37It was the last and most important day of the feast. Jesus stood up and spoke in a loud voice. He said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38Does anyone believe in me? Then, just as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from inside them.” 39When he said this, he meant the Holy Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit later. Up to that time, the Spirit had not been given. This was because Jesus had not yet received glory.
40The people heard his words. Some of them said, “This man must be the Prophet we’ve been expecting.”
41Others said, “He is the Messiah.”
Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee? 42Doesn’t Scripture say that the Messiah will come from the family line of David? Doesn’t it say that he will come from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?” 43So the people did not agree about who Jesus was. 44Some wanted to arrest him. But no one laid a hand on him.
The Jewish Leaders Do Not Believe
45Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees. They asked the guards, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46“No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.
47“You mean he has fooled you also?” the Pharisees asked. 48“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him? 49No! But this mob knows nothing about the law. There is a curse on them.”
50Then Nicodemus, a Pharisee, spoke. He was the one who had gone to Jesus earlier. He asked, 51“Does our law find a man guilty without hearing him first? Doesn’t it want to find out what he is doing?”
52They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Look into it. You will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”
53Then they all went home.
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John 7
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John 7
1¶ After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.
2Now the feast of the Jews, of the tabernacles, was at hand.
3His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart from this place and go into Judea that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4For no one who seeks to be clearly known does anything in secret. If thou doest these things, show thyself to the world.
5For not even his brethren believed in him.
6Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.
8Go ye up unto this feast; I go not up yet unto this feast, for my time is not yet fulfilled.
9And having said these things unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
10But when his brethren were gone up, then he also went up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11Then the Jews sought him at the feast and said, Where is he?
12And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him, for some said, He is a good man; others said, No, but he deceives the people.
13But no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14¶ Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
15And the Jews marvelled, saying, How does this man know letters, having never learned?
16Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
17If anyone desires to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God or whether I speak of myself.
18He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do ye go about to kill me?
20The people answered and said, Thou hast a demon; who goes about to kill thee?
21Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
22Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
23If a man on the sabbath day receives circumcision without the law of Moses being broken, are ye angry at me because I have made a man entirely whole on the sabbath day?
24Judge not according to the appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.
25Then one of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
26But, behold, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Have the rulers truly understood that this is indeed the Christ?
27But we know where this man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one shall know where he is from.
28Then Jesus cried out in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye know me, and ye know from where I come, but I have not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29But I know him, for I am from him, and he has sent me.
30Then they sought to take him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour was not yet come.
31And many of the people believed in him and said, When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these which this man has done?
32The Pharisees heard the people that murmured such things concerning him, and the princes of the priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.
33Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while I shall be with you, and then I shall go unto him that sent me.
34Ye shall seek me and shall not find me, and where I shall be, ye shall not be able to come.
35Then the Jews said among themselves, Where will he go that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
36What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find me, and where I shall be ye shall not be able to come?
37¶ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink.
38He that believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39(But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, which those that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
40Then many of the people, when they heard this word, said, Truly this is the Prophet.
41Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall the Christ come out of Galilee?
42Has not the scripture said, That the Christ comes of the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?
43So there was a division among the people because of him.
44And some of them would have taken him, but no one laid hands on him.
45¶ Then the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees came, and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
46The officers answered, Never has anyone spoken like this man.
47Then the Pharisees answered them, Are ye also deceived?
48Have any of the princes or of the Pharisees believed on him?
49But this people who do not know the law are cursed.
50Nicodemus said unto them (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them),
51Does our law judge any man before it hears him and knows what he does?
52They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and see, for a prophet has never arisen out of Galilee.
53And each one went unto his own house.
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