Yoḥanan (John) 7
7
1And after this יהושע was walking in Galil, for He did not wish to walk in Yehuḏah, because the Yehuḏim were seeking to kill Him.
2And the festival of the Yehuḏim was near, the Festival of Sukkot.#Booths.
3So His brothers said to Him, ‘Get away from here and go into Yehuḏah, so that Your taught ones also see the works that You are doing.
4For no one acts in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these works, show Yourself to the world.
5For even His brothers did not believe in Him.
6יהושע therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7“It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness of it, that its works are wicked.
8“You go up to this festival. I am not yet going up to this festival, for My time has not yet been filled.”
9And having said this to them, He stayed in Galil.
10But when His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11The Yehuḏim, therefore, were seeking Him at the festival, and said, “Where is He?”
12And there was much grumbling about Him among the crowd. Some were saying, “He is good,” but others were saying, “No, but He is leading the crowd astray.”
13However, no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Yehuḏim.
14And about the middle of the festival יהושע went up into the Set-apart Place, and He was teaching.
15And the Yehuḏim were marvelling, saying, “How does this Man know letters, not having learned?”
16יהושע answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.#יהושע says this in seven places in the Book of John: John 3:34; John 7:16; John 8:28; John 8:40; John 12:49; John 14:24; John 17:8. See also Deu. 18:15-20
17If anyone desires to do His desire, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from Elohim, or whether I speak from Myself.
18“He who speaks from himself is seeking his own esteem, but He who seeks the esteem of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.
19“Did not Mosheh give you the Torah? Yet not one of you does the Torah!#See Mat. 5:20 Why do you seek to kill Me?”
20The crowd answered and said, “You have a demon, who seeks to kill You?”
21יהושע answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you all marvel.
22“Because of this Mosheh has given you the circumcision – though it is not from Mosheh, but from the fathers – and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Torah of Mosheh should not be broken, are you wroth with Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?”
24Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.
25Therefore some of them from Yerushalayim said, “Is this not He whom they are seeking to kill?
26“And see! He speaks boldly, and they say none at all to Him. Could it be that the rulers truly know that this is truly the Messiah?
27“But we know where this One is from. And when the Messiah comes, no one knows where He is from.”
28יהושע therefore cried out in the Set-apart Place, teaching and saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from. And I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
29But I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.
30So they were seeking to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
31And many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, “When the Messiah comes, shall He do more signs than these which this One did?”
32The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these matters concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him.
33Therefore יהושע said to them, “Yet a little while I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.
34You shall seek Me and you shall not find Me, and where I am you are unable to come.”
35The Yehuḏim, therefore, said to themselves, “Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? Is He about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?
36What is this word which He said, ‘You shall seek Me and you shall not find Me, and where I am you are unable to come’?”
37And on the last day, the great day of the festival, יהושע stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me, and let him who believes in Me drink.
38“As the Scripture said, out of His innermost shall flow rivers of living water.”#See Isa. 44:3; Jer. 2:13; Jer. 17:13; Zech. 14:8; Psa. 36:8, 9; Pro. 14:27; John 4:10; John 6:33; 1Cor. 10:4; Rev. 7:17; Rev. 21:6; Rev. 22:1; Rev. 22:17
39And this He said concerning the Spirit, which those believing in Him were about to receive, for the Set-apart Spirit was not yet given,#See Eze. 36:26, 27; Joel 2:28-32; Acts 1:4-8; Acts.2.4; Acts 2:33; Acts 10:44-47; Acts 11:15, 16; Eph. 5:18 because יהושע was not yet esteemed.
40Many from the crowd, when they heard the word, then said, “This truly is the Prophet.”
41Others said, “This is the Messiah,” but others said, “Does the Messiah then come out of Galil?
42“Did not the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from the seed of Dawiḏ#See 2Sam. 7:12; Psa. 89:4 and from the village of Bĕyth Leḥem,#See Mic. 5:2 where Dawiḏ was?”
43So a division came about among the people because of Him.
44And some of them wished to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”
46The officers answered, “Never has any man spoken like this Man!”
47The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, “Have you also been led astray?
48“Has anyone of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in Him?
49“But this crowd that does not know the Torah is accursed.”
50Naḵdimon – he who came to יהושע by night, being one of them – said to them,
51Does our Torah judge the man unless it hears first from him and knows what he is doing?
52They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galil? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galil.”
53And each one went to his own house.
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John 7
7
The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers
1After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee,#Mt 17:22 since he did not want to travel in Judea#Lk 1:5 because the Jews#Jn 11:36 were trying to kill him.#Jn 5:18 2The Jewish Festival of Shelters#7:2 Or Tabernacles, or Booths#Ex 23:16 was near. 3So his brothers#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#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#Ps 37:39; Lk 20:10; Jn 7:8 has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand. 7The world cannot hate#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#Gn 1:31 man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving#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#Ac 21:26 and began to teach. 15Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned,#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.#Jn 5:19,30 17If anyone wants to do his will,#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;#Php 3:19 but he who seeks the glory#Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 1Pt 5:4; 2Pt 3:18 of the one who sent him is true,#Jn 8:14; 1Jn 5:20 and there is no unrighteousness in him.#1Jn 3:5 19Didn’t Moses#Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law.#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, #
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#Ac 15:1; Gl 6:15 — not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers#Gn 17:9–14; Lv 12:3 — and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.#Mk 2:23 23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath#Lk 13:10 so that the law of Moses#Lk 2:22 won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath? 24Stop judging#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#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#Lk 8:41; 12:58 know he is the Messiah?#Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 27But we know where this man is from.#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,#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#Jn 5:19 is true. You don’t know him;#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.”#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,#Jn 15:24 will he?” 32The Pharisees#Mk 7:3 heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests#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.#Jn 12:35; 14:19; 16:5,16 Then I’m going to the one who sent me.#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.”#Jn 8:21; 13:33
35Then the Jews#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#Jms 1:1; 1Pt 1:1 among the Greeks#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’#Jn 8:21?”
The Promise of the Spirit
37On the last and most important day of the festival,#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#Lk 14:26 and drink.#Is 55:1; Rv 22:17 38The one who believes in me, #Jn 6:35 as the Scripture#Mt 26:54 has said, will have streams of living water#Jn 4:10–14 flow#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.#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,#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.”#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#2Pt 1:20 say that the Messiah comes from David’s#Lk 1:27 offspring#7:42 Lit seed and from the town of Bethlehem,#Gn 35:19 where David lived?” 43So the crowd was divided#Jn 9:16; 1Co 1:10 because of him. 44Some of them wanted to seize him,#Jn 10:39 but no one laid hands on him.
Debate over Jesus’s Claims
45Then the servants#Jn 18:18 came to the chief priests#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#Mt 7:28–29
47Then the Pharisees responded to them, “Are you fooled#Rv 20:10 too? 48Have any of the rulers#Lk 8:41 or Pharisees believed in him? 49But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”
50Nicodemus#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?” #Dt 1:16; 17:6; 19:15
52“You aren’t from Galilee#Mt 17:22 too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”#2Kg 14:25
[The earliest mss do not include 7:53–8:11.]
[ 53Then each one went to his house.#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.
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