John 7
1 After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was near.
3 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
His brothers therefore said to him, Depart from here, and go into Judea so that thy disciples also may see thy works that thou do.
4 For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
For no man does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be in public. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.
5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
For not even his brothers believed in him.
6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet here, but your time is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
8 Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
Go ye up to this feast. I am not yet going to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.
9 Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.
And having said these things to them, he remained in Galilee.
10 But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.
But when his brothers went up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in private.
11 So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is that man?
12 Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”
And there was much murmuring among the multitudes about him. Some said, He is a good man, others said, No, but he leads the multitude astray.
13 Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
Yet no man spoke openly about him because of fear of the Jews.
14 About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
And when it was now in the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How does this man know scholarly material, not having learned?
16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me.
17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
If any man wants to do his will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or I speak from myself.
18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, this man is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.
19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
20 “You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
The multitude answered and said, Thou have a demon. Who seeks to kill thee?
21 Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because of this.
22 But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on a sabbath.
23 If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be loosed, are ye angry with me because I made a man entirely well on a sabbath?
24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
Therefore some of the Jerusalemites said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
26 Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
And lo, he speaks in public, and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the rulers really know that this really is the Christ?
27 But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
However we know this man, where he is from, but when the Christ comes, no man knows where he is from.
28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know where I am from? And I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.
30 So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
They sought therefore to seize him, and yet no man laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.
31 Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”
But many from the crowd believed in him, and they said, When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these that this man did?
32 When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent subordinates so that they might take him.
33 So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
Jesus therefore said, Yet a little time I am with you, and then I go to him who sent me.
34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
Ye will seek me, and will not find me, and where I am, ye cannot come.
35 At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where is this man going to go that we will not find him? Is he going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
What is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and will not find me, and, Where I am, ye cannot come?
37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.
39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
But he spoke this about the Spirit that those who believe in him were going to receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40 On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
Many from the multitude therefore, when they heard the saying, said, This is truly the prophet.
41 Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, For does the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?
43 So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.
So there became a division among the multitude because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.
And some of them wanted to take him, but no man laid hands on him.
45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”
The subordinates therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And those men said to them, Why did ye not bring him?
46 “Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.
The subordinates answered, A man never so spoke like this man.
47 “Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.
The Pharisees therefore answered them, Have ye not also been led astray?
48 “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
49 But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”
But this multitude that does not know the law are accursed.
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them),
51 “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does?
52 “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
They answered and said to him, Are thou also from Galilee? Search and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet.
53 Then each went to his own home.
And each man went to his house.
