John 7
Jesus Goes to the Feast of Tabernacles
After these things,
Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the
Jews sought to kill him. Now the feast of the Jews, the
Feast of Booths, was at hand. His brothers therefore said to
him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also
may see your works which you do. For no one does anything in
secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things,
reveal yourself to the world." For even his brothers didn't
believe in him.
Jesus therefore said to
them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is
always ready. The world
can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its
works are evil. You go up
to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not
yet fulfilled."
Having said these
things to them, he stayed in Galilee. But when his brothers had gone up
to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in
secret. The Jews
therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
There was much murmuring
among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good
man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude
astray." Yet no one
spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
But when it was now the midst of
the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. The Jews therefore marveled,
saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been
educated?"
Jesus therefore
answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who
sent me. If anyone
desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is
from God, or if I am speaking from myself. He who speaks from himself seeks
his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and
no unrighteousness is in him. Didn't Moses give you the law,
and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
The multitude
answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
Jesus answered them,
"I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
Moses has given you
circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the
Sabbath you circumcise a boy. If a boy receives circumcision on
the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with
me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath? Don't judge according to
appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
Is Jesus the Christ?
Therefore some of them
of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? Behold, he speaks openly, and
they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this
is truly the Christ? However we know where this man
comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes
from."
Jesus therefore cried
out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both
know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who
sent me is true, whom you don't know. I know him, because I am from
him, and he sent me."
They sought therefore
to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet
come. But of the
multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes,
he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"
The Pharisees heard the
multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and
the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him
who sent me. You will
seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
The Jews therefore
said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find
him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
What is this word that he
said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I
am, you can't come'?"
Now on the last and
greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
He who believes in me, as
the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living
water." But
he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to
receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet
glorified.
Many of the multitude
therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the
prophet." Others
said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the
Christ come out of Galilee? Hasn't the Scripture said that
the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village
where David was?" So
there arose a division in the multitude because of him. Some of them would have arrested
him, but no one laid hands on him.
Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
The officers therefore came to
the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't
you bring him?"
The officers answered,
"No man ever spoke like this man!"
The Pharisees
therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?
Have any of the rulers
believed in him, or of the Pharisees? But this multitude that doesn't
know the law is accursed."
Nicodemus (he who came
to him by night, being one of them) said to them, "Does our law judge a man,
unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
They answered him,
"Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has
arisen out of Galilee."
((The earliest and most reliable manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53-8:11.))
Everyone went to his own house.
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