John 7 : 1 (WEB)
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
John 7 : 2 (WEB)
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
John 7 : 3 (WEB)
His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
John 7 : 4 (WEB)
For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
John 7 : 5 (WEB)
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
John 7 : 6 (WEB)
Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
John 7 : 7 (WEB)
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
John 7 : 8 (WEB)
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."
John 7 : 9 (WEB)
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
John 7 : 10 (WEB)
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
John 7 : 11 (WEB)
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
John 7 : 12 (WEB)
There 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."
John 7 : 13 (WEB)
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John 7 : 14 (WEB)
But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
John 7 : 15 (WEB)
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"
John 7 : 16 (WEB)
Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
John 7 : 17 (WEB)
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
John 7 : 18 (WEB)
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
John 7 : 19 (WEB)
Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
John 7 : 20 (WEB)
The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
John 7 : 21 (WEB)
Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
John 7 : 22 (WEB)
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
John 7 : 23 (WEB)
If 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 every bit whole on the Sabbath?
John 7 : 24 (WEB)
Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
John 7 : 25 (WEB)
Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?
John 7 : 26 (WEB)
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
John 7 : 27 (WEB)
However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."
John 7 : 28 (WEB)
Jesus 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.
John 7 : 29 (WEB)
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
John 7 : 30 (WEB)
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 7 : 31 (WEB)
But 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?"
John 7 : 32 (WEB)
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
John 7 : 33 (WEB)
Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
John 7 : 34 (WEB)
You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
John 7 : 35 (WEB)
The 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?
John 7 : 36 (WEB)
What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"
John 7 : 37 (WEB)
Now 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!
John 7 : 38 (WEB)
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
John 7 : 39 (WEB)
But 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.
John 7 : 40 (WEB)
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."
John 7 : 41 (WEB)
Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
John 7 : 42 (WEB)
Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
John 7 : 43 (WEB)
So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
John 7 : 44 (WEB)
Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
John 7 : 45 (WEB)
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
John 7 : 46 (WEB)
The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
John 7 : 47 (WEB)
The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?
John 7 : 48 (WEB)
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
John 7 : 49 (WEB)
But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
John 7 : 50 (WEB)
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
John 7 : 51 (WEB)
"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
John 7 : 52 (WEB)
They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
John 7 : 53 (WEB)
Everyone went to his own house,
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