John 7
1 After this, Jesus went about in Galilee; he did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
2 The Jewish festival, the Festival of Booths, was near.
3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may also see the works you are doing.
4 For no one does anything in secret while seeking to be known publicly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.
8 You go up to the festival; I am not yet going up to this festival, because my time has not yet come.”
9 After saying this to them, he stayed in Galilee.
10 But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he too went up, not openly, but as if in secret.
11 The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?”
12 There was much murmuring about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is good.” Others said, “No, he is leading the crowd astray.”
13 Yet no one spoke openly about him, for fear of the Jews.
14 When the festival was already halfway over, Jesus went up to the temple and began teaching.
15 The Jews were amazed and said, “How does this man know the Scriptures without having studied?”
16 Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but belongs to the one who sent me.
17 If anyone is willing to do his will, that person will know whether this teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
18 Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no injustice in him.
19 Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet none of you keeps the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?”
20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon. Who is trying to kill you?”
21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and all of you are amazed.
22 That is why Moses gave you circumcision—not that it came from Moses, but from the ancestors—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?
24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with a just judgment.”
25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man they are seeking to kill?
26 Look, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the authorities truly recognized that he is the Christ?
27 But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28 Then Jesus, teaching in the temple, cried out, “You know me and know where I am from; yet I have not come on my own. The one who sent me is true, and you do not know him.
29 I know him, because I come from him, and he sent me.”
30 So they were trying to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 Many in the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Christ comes, will he perform more signs than this man has performed?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33 Then Jesus said, “I am with you a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
34 You will look for me and will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
35 Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does this man intend to go, that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Diaspora among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
36 What does he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me and will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”
37 On the last day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from within him.”
39 He said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 Then some in the crowd, hearing these words, said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But others said, “Surely the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?
42 Does Scripture not say that the Christ comes from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
43 So there was division among the crowd because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”
46 The officers answered, “No one has ever spoken like this man.”
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Have you too been led astray?
48 Has any one of the authorities believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?
49 But this crowd, which does not know the Law, is cursed.”
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and was one of them, said to them,
51 “Does our Law judge a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he does?”
52 They answered him, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
53 ⟦And each went to his own home.⟧
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