Yochanan (Jhn) 7
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1After this, Yeshua traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y’hudah because the Judeans were out to kill him. 2But the festival of Sukkot in Y’hudah was near; 3so his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go into Y’hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do; 4for no one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you’re doing these things, show yourself to the world!” 5(His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.) 6Yeshua said to them, “My time has not yet come; but for you, any time is right. 7The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are. 8You, go on up to the festival; as for me, I am not going up to this festival now, because the right time for me has not yet come.” 9Having said this, he stayed on in the Galil.
10But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he too went up, not publicly but in secret. 11At the festival, the Judeans were looking for him. “Where is he?” they asked. 12And among the crowds there was much whispering about him. Some said, “He’s a good man”; but others said, “No, he is deceiving the masses.” 13However, no one spoke about him openly, for fear of the Judeans.
14Not until the festival was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach. 15The Judeans were surprised: “How does this man know so much without having studied?” they asked. 16So Yeshua gave them an answer: “My teaching is not my own, it comes from the One who sent me. 17If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or I speak on my own. 18A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest, there is nothing false about him. 19Didn’t Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?” 20“You have a demon!” the crowd answered. “Who’s out to kill you?” 21Yeshua answered them, “I did one thing; and because of this, all of you are amazed. 22Moshe gave you b’rit-milah — not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs — and you do a boy’s b’rit-milah on Shabbat. 23If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man’s whole body well on Shabbat? 24Stop judging by surface appearances, and judge the right way!”
25Some of the Yerushalayim people said, “Isn’t this the man they’re out to kill? 26Yet here he is, speaking openly; and they don’t say anything to him. It couldn’t be, could it, that the authorities have actually concluded he’s the Messiah? 27Surely not — we know where this man comes from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from.” 28Whereupon Yeshua, continuing to teach in the Temple courts, cried out, “Indeed you do know me! And you know where I’m from! And I have not come on my own! The One who sent me is real. But him you don’t know! 29I do know him, because I am with him, and he sent me!”
30At this, they tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him; because his time had not yet come. 31However, many in the crowd put their trust in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he do more miracles than this man has done?”
32The P’rushim heard the crowd whispering these things about Yeshua; so the head cohanim and the P’rushim sent some of the Temple guards to arrest him. 33Yeshua said, “I will be with you only a little while longer; then I will go away to the One who sent me. 34You will look for me and not find me; indeed, where I am, you cannot come.” 35The Judeans said to themselves, “Where is this man about to go, that we won’t find him? Does he intend to go to the Greek Diaspora and teach the Greek-speaking Jews? 36And when he says, ‘You will look for me and not find me; indeed, where I am, you cannot come’ — what does he mean?”
37Now on the last day of the festival, Hoshana Rabbah, Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him keep coming to me and drinking! 38Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!” 39(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in him were to receive later — the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet been glorified.)
40On hearing his words, some people in the crowd said, “Surely this man is ‘the prophet’”; 41others said, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “How can the Messiah come from the Galil? 42Doesn’t the Tanakh say that the Messiah is from the seed of David and comes from Beit-Lechem, the village where David lived?” 43So the people were divided because of him. 44Some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45The guards came back to the head cohanim and the P’rushim, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?” 46The guards replied, “No one ever spoke the way this man speaks!” 47“You mean you’ve been taken in as well?” the P’rushim retorted. 48“Has any of the authorities trusted him? Or any of the P’rushim? No! 49True, these ‘am-ha’aretz do, but they know nothing about the Torah, they are under a curse!”
50Nakdimon, the man who had gone to Yeshua before and was one of them, said to them, 51“Our Torah doesn’t condemn a man — does it? — until after hearing from him and finding out what he’s doing.” 52They replied, “You aren’t from the Galil too, are you? Study the Tanakh, and see for yourself that no prophet comes from the Galil!” 53Then they all left, each one to his own home.
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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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