7John 7

1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.Select John 7:1

2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.Select John 7:2

3His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.Select John 7:3

4For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”Select John 7:4

5For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.Select John 7:5

6Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.Select John 7:6

7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.Select John 7:7

8You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”Select John 7:8

9Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.Select John 7:9

10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.Select John 7:10

11The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”Select John 7:11

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.”Select John 7:12

13Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.Select John 7:13

14But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.Select John 7:14

15The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”Select John 7:15

16Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.Select John 7:16

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.Select John 7:17

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.Select John 7:18

19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”Select John 7:19

20The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”Select John 7:20

21Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.Select John 7:21

22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.Select John 7:22

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?Select John 7:23

24Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”Select John 7:24

25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?Select John 7:25

26Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?Select John 7:26

27However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”Select John 7:27

28Jesus 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.Select John 7:28

29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”Select John 7:29

30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.Select John 7:30

31But 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?”Select John 7:31

32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.Select John 7:32

33Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.Select John 7:33

34You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.”Select John 7:34

35The 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?Select John 7:35

36What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?”Select John 7:36

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!Select John 7:37

38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”Select John 7:38

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.Select John 7:39

40Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”Select John 7:40

41Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?Select John 7:41

42Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”Select John 7:42

43So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.Select John 7:43

44Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.Select John 7:44

45The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”Select John 7:45

46The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”Select John 7:46

47The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?Select John 7:47

48Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?Select John 7:48

49But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is accursed.”Select John 7:49

50Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,Select John 7:50

51“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”Select John 7:51

52They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”Select John 7:52

53Everyone went to his own house,Select John 7:53