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.
After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.
2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, 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.
So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you 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.”
Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.
5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
For even his brothers had no belief in him.
6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is 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 you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.
9 Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.
Having said these things to them, he still kept in Galilee.
10 But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.
But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret.
11 So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?
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 discussion about him among the mass of the people. Some said, He is a good man; but others said, No, he is giving people false ideas.
13 Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
But no man said anything about him openly for fear of the Jews.
14 About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.
15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
Then the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He has never been to school.
16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, 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 is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from — from God or 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.
The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him — that man is true and there is no evil 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? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?
20 “You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?
21 Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
This was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at it.
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 gave you circumcision — not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers — and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.
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 child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is desired?
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 here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ?
27 But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes 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,
Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.
29 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
I have knowledge of him because I came 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.
Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.
31 Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”
And numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes will he do more signs than this man has done?
32 When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.
This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to 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.
Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer 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.”
You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not 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?
So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of 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 saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not 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.
On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.
38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come 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.
This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.
40 On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly 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. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from 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?”
Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?
43 So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.
So there was a division among the people because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.
And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.
45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”
Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?
46 “Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.
The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.
47 “Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.
Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?
48 “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?
49 But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”
But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
Nicodemus — he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them — said to them,
51 “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?
52 “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.
53 Then each went to his own home.
[And every man went to his house;
