John 7
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The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers
1After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, # 7:1 Mt 17:22 since he did not want to travel in Judea # 7:1 Lk 1:5 because the Jews # 7:1 Jn 11:36 were trying to kill him. # 7:1 Jn 5:18 2The Jewish Festival of Shelters # 7:2 Or Tabernacles, or Booths,# 7:2 Ex 23:16 was near. 3So his brothers # 7:3 Mk 3:21,31–35; 6:3; Lk 8:19 said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples can see your works # 7:3 Mk 6:28; Jn 5:36; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 that you are doing. 4For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” 5(For not even his brothers believed in him.)
6Jesus told them, “My time # 7:6 Ps 37:39; Lk 20:10; Jn 7:8 has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand. 7The world cannot hate # 7:7 Lk 6:27; 19:14 you, but it does hate me because I testify about it — that its works are evil. 8Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to this festival, # 7:8 Other mss add yet because my time has not yet fully come.” 9After he had said these things, he stayed in Galilee.
Jesus at the Festival of Shelters
10After his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly but secretly. 11The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ” 12And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good # 7:12 Gn 1:31 man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving # 7:12 Rv 20:10 the people.” 13Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.
14When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple # 7:14 Ac 21:26 and began to teach. 15Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned, # 7:15 Mt 26:54 since he hasn’t been trained? ”
16Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me. # 7:16 Jn 5:19,30 17If anyone wants to do his will, # 7:17 Rm 8:27; Eph 1:9 he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. 18The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; # 7:18 Php 3:19 but he who seeks the glory # 7:18 Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 1Pt 5:4; 2Pt 3:18 of the one who sent him is true, # 7:18 Jn 8:14; 1Jn 5:20 and there is no unrighteousness in him. # 7:18 1Jn 3:5 19Didn’t Moses # 7:19 Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. # 7:19 Rm 2:12–29; 3:9–10,20–23,27–28 Why are you trying to kill me? ”
20“You have a demon! ” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you? ”
21 “I performed one work, # 7:21 Jn 5:36; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered. 22“This is why Moses has given you circumcision # 7:22 Ac 15:1; Gl 6:15 — not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers # 7:22 Gn 17:9–14; Lv 12:3 — and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. # 7:22 Mk 2:23 23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath # 7:23 Lk 13:10 so that the law of Moses # 7:23 Lk 2:22 won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath? 24Stop judging # 7:24 Lk 6:37; Heb 9:27 according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”
The Identity of the Messiah
25Some of the people of Jerusalem # 7:25 Mt 23:37 were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities # 7:26 Lk 8:41; 12:58 know he is the Messiah? # 7:26 Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 27But we know where this man is from. # 7:27 Mt 13:55; 21:11; Lk 4:22; Jn 6:42 When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.”
28As he was teaching in the temple, # 7:28 Ac 21:26 Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me # 7:28 Jn 5:19 is true. You don’t know him; # 7:28 Jn 1:26–33; 5:13; 8:14,19,55; 9:29–30; 12:35; 13:7; 14:5; 15:15,21; 20:14; Gl 4:8; 1Th 4:5; 2Th 1:8; Ti 1:16 29I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.” # 7:29 Mk 9:37; Lk 10:22; Jn 1:6; 9:16
30Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. 31However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done, # 7:31 Jn 15:24 will he? ” 32The Pharisees # 7:32 Mk 7:3 heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests # 7:32 Mt 2:4 and the Pharisees sent servants # 7:32 Or temple police, or officers, also in vv. 45,46 to arrest him.
33Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. # 7:33 Jn 12:35; 14:19; 16:5,16 Then I’m going to the one who sent me. # 7:33 Jn 14:12; 16:5,10,17,28 34You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.” # 7:34 Jn 8:21; 13:33
35Then the Jews # 7:35 Jn 11:36 said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed # 7:35 Gk diaspora; Jewish people scattered throughout Gentile lands,# 7:35 Jms 1:1; 1Pt 1:1 among the Greeks # 7:35 Gl 2:3 and teach the Greeks, does he? 36What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’ # 7:36 Jn 8:21? ”
The Promise of the Spirit
37On the last and most important day of the festival, # 7:37 Lv 23:34–36; Nm 29:35; Dt 16:13–14; Neh 8:18; Jn 5:1 Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me # 7:37 Other mss omit to me,# 7:37 Lk 14:26 and drink. # 7:37 Is 55:1; Rv 22:17 38The one who believes in me, # 7:38 Jn 6:35 as the Scripture # 7:38 Mt 26:54 has said, will have streams of living water # 7:38 Jn 4:10–14 flow # 7:38 Ex 17:1–6; Ps 78:15–16; 105:40–41; Pr 18:4; Is 12:3; Ezk 47:1–11; Zch 14:8; Rv 22:1–2 from deep within him.” 39He said this about the Spirit. # 7:39 Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; 8:15; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5; Rv 3:22 Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, # 7:39 Ac 2:33 for the Spirit # 7:39 Other mss read Holy Spirit had not yet been given # 7:39 Lit the Spirit was not yet because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
The People Are Divided over Jesus
40When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This truly is the Prophet.” # 7:40 Jn 6:14 41Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 42Doesn’t the Scripture # 7:42 2Pt 1:20 say that the Messiah comes from David’s # 7:42 Lk 1:27 offspring # 7:42 Lit seed and from the town of Bethlehem, # 7:42 Gn 35:19 where David lived? ” 43So the crowd was divided # 7:43 Jn 9:16; 1Co 1:10 because of him. 44Some of them wanted to seize him, # 7:44 Jn 10:39 but no one laid hands on him.
Debate over Jesus’s Claims
45Then the servants # 7:45 Jn 18:18 came to the chief priests # 7:45 Mt 2:4 and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him? ”
46The servants answered, “No man ever spoke like this! ” # 7:46 Other mss read like this man,# 7:46 Mt 7:28–29
47Then the Pharisees responded to them, “Are you fooled # 7:47 Rv 20:10 too? 48Have any of the rulers # 7:48 Lk 8:41 or Pharisees believed in him? 49But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”
50Nicodemus # 7:50 Jn 3:1; 19:39 — the one who came to him previously and who was one of them — said to them, 51“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ” # 7:51 Dt 1:16; 17:6; 19:15
52“You aren’t from Galilee # 7:52 Mt 17:22 too, are you? ” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” # 7:52 2Kg 14:25
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[The earliest mss do not include 7:53–8:11.] # 7:53–8:11 Other mss include all or some of the passage after Jn 7:36,44,52; 21:25; or Lk 21:38.
[53Then each one went to his house.
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Yochanan 7
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1And after these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach itinerated in the Galil, for he was not wanting to move about in Yehudah, because those of Yehudah were seeking to kill him. 2Now the Chag of Sukkot was near.#7:2 Lv 23:34; Dt 16:16 3His achim then said to him, Leave here and go away into the land of Yehudah, that also your talmidim will see your ma'asim which you do. 4For no one who seeks public notice does anything besod (secretly). If these things you do, then manifest yourself to HaOlam. 5For not even the achim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach were believing in him.#7:5 Ps 69:8 6Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, My sha'ah has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7The Olam Hazeh is not capable of sin'ah (hatred) toward you, but the Olam Hazeh hates me, and for this reason: I give solemn edut (testimony) about it because the ma'asim of the Olam Hazeh are ra'im (evil). 8You make aliyah leregel up to the Chag (Feast). I am not going up to this Chag (Feast), because my time has not yet been fulfilled. 9And having said these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach remained in the Galil.
10But when the achim of him made aliyah leregel to the Chag (Feast), then also Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up#7:10 Yn 5:30 not publicly but besod (secretly). 11Then those of Yehudah were seeking Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in the Chag (Feast) and were saying, Where is that man? 12And there was much telunnah (murmuring) about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach among the multitudes. Some were saying, He is tov (good), but others were saying, Lo (no), he deceives the multitude. 13No one, however, was speaking openly about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach because of the fear of those of Yehudah.
14But around the middle period of the Chag (Feast), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to the Beis Hamikdash and was saying shiurim (teaching torah). 15Therefore, those of Yehudah were marveling, saying, How has this man binah (understanding) of a Yeshiva yode'a sefer (scholar), not having learned? 16Therefore, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, My Torah (teaching) is not mine but of the One having sent me. 17If anyone wants to do the ratzon Hashem, he will have da'as about my Torah, whether it is of Hashem or I speak only from myself.#7:17 Ps 25:14; 92:15; Num 16:28 18The one speaking from himself seeks his own kavod (glory), but he who is seeking the kavod of the One having sent him, this one is ne'eman and there is no avlah (injustice) in him. 19Has not Moshe given you the Torah? None of you mekyyaim (fulfills) es [kol] toras Moshe. Why are you seeking to kill me?#7:19 Dt 32:46; Prov 20:9; Koh 7:20; Isa 53:6; Ro 7:19 20The multitude said, You have a shed (demon). Who is seeking to kill you? 21In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Of the Pe'ulot of Hashem, I accomplished echad, one pe'ulah, and everyone marvels. 22Moshe has given you bris milah not that bris milah is of Moshe, but it is of the Avot, and on a Shabbos you perpetually perform bris milah.#7:22 Gn 17:10-14; 21:4; Lv 12:3 23If a man receives bris milah on Shabbos and lo tufar Torat Moshe#7:23 Gn 17:14 (the Torah of Moses may not be broken) are you angry with me because I gave a man refu'ah shleimah on Shabbos? 24Do not judge according to appearance but judge with mishpat tzedek.#7:24 Zech 7:9; 1Sm 16:7; Isa 11:3-4; Lv 19:15
25Therefore, some of the ones of Yerushalayim were saying, Is it not this man whom they are seeking to kill? 26And, hinei, he speaks publicly and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the manhigim (the gedolim of Judaism) have da'as that this man is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? 27But this man, we have da'as where he is from; but the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, whenever he comes, no one has da'as where he is from. 28Therefore, in the Beis Hamikdash while teaching, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out, saying, You have da'as of me, and you have da'as of where I am from. I have not come on my own, but the One Who sent me is ne'eman. He is the One of Whom you do not have da'as. 29I have da'as of Him, because from Him Ani Hu, and He is the One Who sent me. 30Therefore, they were seeking to arrest him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his sha'ah (hour, time) had not yet come. 31From the multitude, however, many put their emunah, their bitachon, in him, and were saying, The Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, whenever he comes, surely he will not do more otot (miraculous signs) than the things which this man did?
32The Perushim heard the telunnah (murmuring) of these things from the multitude, the talk about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and they sent the Rashei Hakohanim and the mesharetim of the Perushim that they might arrest him. 33Therefore, he said, Yet a little time I am with you and I go away to the One having sent me. 34You will seek me and not find me and where Ani Hu you are not able to come. 35Therefore, those of Yehudah said to themselves, Where is this man about to journey that we will not find him? Surely he is not about to sojourn to the Golus of the Yevanim (Greeks) to teach the Yevanim?#7:35 Prov 1:28 36What is this dvar which he said, You will seek me and will not find me and where Ani Hu, you are not able to come?
37Now on the last day of the Chag, Hoshana Rabbah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink.#7:37 Lv 23:36; Isa 55:1; 12:3; 49:10 38The one with emunah in me, as the Kitvei Hakodesh said, “Out of the midst of him, rivers of MAYIM CHAYYIM#7:38 Zech 14:8 will flow.”#7:38 Prov 18:4; Isa 44:3; 58:11; 43:19f, Ezek 47:1-12; Yoel 4:18; Song 4:15 39But this he said about the Ruach Hakodesh which the ones having emunah (faith) in him were about to receive, for the Ruach Hakodesh had not yet been given, because Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach had not yet received kavod.#7:39 Yoel 3:1
40Some of the multitude, therefore, having heard these devarim were saying, This man is beemes the Navi. 41Others were saying, This man is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. But some were saying, Surely the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes not from the Galil, does he? 42Has not the Kitvei Hakodesh said that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is from the zera Dovid and from Beit-Lechem, the shtetl where Dovid lived?#7:42 2Sm 7:12; Ps 89:3-4; Mic 5:2 [1]; Jer 23:5 43A machloket (controversy), therefore, occurred among the multitude because of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. 44And some of them were wanting to arrest him, but no one laid his hands on him.
45Then the avadim of the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim came and the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim said to them, Why did you not bring him? 46In reply, the avadim said, Never Ish spoke like this Ish. 47In reply, therefore, the Perushim said, Surely not you also have been deceived? 48Has any of the manhigim put their emunah (faith) in him, or any of the Perushim?#7:48 T.N. but cf. Yn 7:50; 19:39 49But this am ha'aretz crowd has no da'as of Torah and is cursed.#7:49 Dt 27:26 50Rav Nakdimon, the one having come to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach earlier, being one of their own, says to them, 51Surely Torateinu (Our Torah) judges not the Man unless it hears first from the Man himself and has da'as of what he does, does it?#7:51 Dt 1:16; 17:6; Ex 23:1 52They answered and said to Rav Nakdimon, Surely not you also are from the Galil, are you? Search [the Kitvei Hakodesh] and see that from the Galil a Navi does not arise.#7:52 T.N. but cf. 2Kgs 14:25; Isa 9:1,2
53And they went each one to his bais.
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