John 7
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The Unbelief of Jesus’ 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 Tabernacles # Or Booths # One of 3 great Jewish religious festivals, along with Passover and Pentecost; Ex 23:14; Dt 16:16 # 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 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 deeds are evil. 8Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet, # Other mss omit yet because My time has not yet fully come.” 9After He had said these things, He stayed in Galilee.
Jesus at the Festival of Tabernacles
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 discussion 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 because they feared the Jews.
14When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex # Ac 21:26 and began to teach. 15Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, # 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 understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own. 18The one who speaks for himself 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 do you want to kill Me? ”
20“You have a demon! ” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You? ”
21“I did one work, # Jn 5:36; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered. 22“Consider this: 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 want 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 complex, # 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 # The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 2:4; 8:20; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1 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 muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests # Mt 2:4 and the Pharisees sent temple police 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 so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion # Jewish people scattered throughout Gentile lands who spoke Gk and were influenced by Gk culture # 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, he should come to Me # 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, # Jesus may have had several OT passages in mind; Is 58:11; Ezk 47:1-12; Zch 14:8 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 # Other mss read Holy Spirit had not yet been received # Other mss read had not yet been given # Lit the Spirit was not yet ; the word received is implied from the previous clause. because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
The People Are Divided over Jesus
40When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet! ” # Probably the Prophet in Dt 18:15 # 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 # Lit seed and from the town of Bethlehem, # Gn 35:19 where David once lived? ” 43So a division # Jn 9:16; 1Co 1:10 occurred among the crowd because of Him. 44Some of them wanted to seize Him, # Jn 10:39 but no one laid hands on Him.
Debate over Jesus’ Claims
45Then the temple police # Jn 18:18 came to the chief priests # Mt 2:4 and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him? ”
46The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this! ” # 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, being 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.” # Jonah and probably other prophets did come from Galilee; 2Kg 14:25 # 2Kg 14:25
53So each one went to his house.
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John 7
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1And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,
2and the feast of the Jews was nigh — that of tabernacles —
3his brethren, therefore, said unto him, ‘Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost;
4for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things — manifest thyself to the world;’
5for not even were his brethren believing in him.
6Jesus, therefore, saith to them, ‘My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;
7the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
8Ye — go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;’
9and saying these things to them, he remained in Galilee.
10And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret;
11the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, ‘Where is that one?’
12and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said — ‘He is good;’ and others said, ‘No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;’
13no one, however, was speaking freely about him, through fear of the Jews.
14And it being now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple, and he was teaching,
15and the Jews were wondering, saying, ‘How hath this one known letters — not having learned?’
16Jesus answered them and said, ‘My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;
17if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or — I do speak from myself.
18‘He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;
19hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?’
20The multitude answered and said, ‘Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?’
21Jesus answered and said to them, ‘One work I did, and ye all wonder,
22because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision — not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers — and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;
23if a man doth receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye wroth with me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?
24judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.’
25Certain, therefore, of the Jerusalemites said, ‘Is not this he whom they are seeking to kill?
26and, lo, he doth speak freely, and they say nothing to him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?
27but this one — we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.’
28Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, ‘Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;
29and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.’
30They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,
31and many out of the multitude did believe in him, and said — ‘The Christ — when he may come — will he do more signs than these that this one did?’
32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they may take him;
33Jesus, therefore, said to them, ‘Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;
34ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.’
35The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, ‘Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? — to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks;
36what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?’
37And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, ‘If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;
38he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;’
39and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40Many, therefore out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, ‘This is truly the Prophet;’
41others said, ‘This is the Christ;’ and others said, ‘Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?
42Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem — the village where David was — the Christ doth come?’
43A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of him.
44And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;
45the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, ‘Wherefore did ye not bring him?’
46The officers answered, ‘Never so spake man — as this man.’
47The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, ‘Have ye also been led astray?
48did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?
49but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.’
50Nicodemus saith unto them — he who came by night unto him — being one of them,
51‘Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?’
52They answered and said to him, ‘Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;’
53and each one went on to his house, but Jesus went on to the mount of the Olives.
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