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John Chapter 7

¹After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

³So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your acts which you do.

⁴For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." ⁵For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

⁶So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its actions are evil.

⁸You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." ⁹Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹So the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" ¹²There 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." ¹³Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

¹⁵The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" ¹⁶So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

¹⁷If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

¹⁸He 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.

¹⁹Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" ²⁰The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" ²¹Jesus answered them, "I did one work and you all marvel because of it.

²²Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

²³If 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?

²⁴Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." ²⁵So some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the one they seek to kill?

²⁶Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the AnointedOne?

²⁷However we know where this man comes from, but when the AnointedOne comes, no one will know where he comes from." ²⁸So Jesus 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.

²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." ³⁰So they sought to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the AnointedOne comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

³³Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

³⁴You will seek me yet won't find me. You can't come where I am." ³⁵So the Jews 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?

³⁶What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me yet won't find me'; and 'You can't come where I am.'?" ³⁷Now 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!

³⁸He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." ³⁹But 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.

⁴⁰Many of the multitude, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." ⁴¹Others said, "This is the AnointedOne." But some said, "What, does the AnointedOne come out of Galilee?

⁴²Hasn't the Scripture said that the AnointedOne comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" ⁴³So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" ⁴⁶The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" ⁴⁷So the Pharisees answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn't know the law is cursed." ⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" ⁵²They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." ⁵³[*Everyone went to his own house,]