John 7:1WEB
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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John 7:1WEB
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
John 7:2WEB
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
John 7:3WEB
His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
John 7:4WEB
For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
John 7:5WEB
For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
John 7:6WEB
Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
John 7:7WEB
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
John 7:8WEB
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
John 7:9WEB
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
John 7:10WEB
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
John 7:11WEB
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
John 7:12WEB
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.”
John 7:13WEB
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John 7:14WEB
But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
John 7:15WEB
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
John 7:16WEB
Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
John 7:17WEB
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.
John 7:18WEB
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.
John 7:19WEB
Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
John 7:20WEB
The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
John 7:21WEB
Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.
John 7:22WEB
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
John 7:23WEB
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 completely healthy on the Sabbath?
John 7:24WEB
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
John 7:25WEB
Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
John 7:26WEB
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
John 7:27WEB
However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
John 7:28WEB
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.
John 7:29WEB
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
John 7:30WEB
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 7:31WEB
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?”
John 7:32WEB
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
John 7:33WEB
Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
John 7:34WEB
You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
John 7:35WEB
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?
John 7:36WEB
What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”
John 7:37WEB
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!
John 7:38WEB
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:39WEB
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.
John 7:40WEB
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
John 7:41WEB
Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
John 7:42WEB
Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
John 7:43WEB
So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
John 7:44WEB
Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
John 7:45WEB
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
John 7:46WEB
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
John 7:47WEB
The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
John 7:48WEB
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
John 7:49WEB
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
John 7:50WEB
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
John 7:51WEB
“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
John 7:52WEB
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
John 7:53WEB
Everyone went to his own house,
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.