# John 7 [[John-06|← John 06]] | [[John]] | [[John-08|John 08 →]] *** ###### v1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ###### v2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. ###### v3 His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. ###### v4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." ###### v5 For even his brothers didn't believe in him. ###### v6 Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ###### v7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. ###### v8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." ###### v9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. ###### v10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ###### v11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" ###### v12 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." ###### v13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. ###### v14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ###### v15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" ###### v16 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ###### v17 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. ###### v18 He 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. ###### v19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" ###### v20 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" ###### v21 Jesus answered them, "I did one work and you all marvel because of it. ###### v22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. ###### v23 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 completely healthy on the Sabbath? ###### v24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." ###### v25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? ###### v26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? ###### v27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from." ###### v28 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. ###### v29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." ###### v30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ###### v31 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?" ###### v32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. ###### v33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. ###### v34 You will seek me, and won't find me. You can't come where I am." ###### v35 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? ###### v36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me;' and 'Where I am, you can't come'?" ###### v37 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! ###### v38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." ###### v39 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. ###### v40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." ###### v41 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? ###### v42 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, the village where David was?" ###### v43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him. ###### v44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ###### v45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" ###### v46 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" ###### v47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? ###### v48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ###### v49 But this multitude that doesn't know the law is cursed." ###### v50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ###### v51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" ###### v52 They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." ###### v53 Everyone went to his own house, *** [[John-06|← John 06]] | [[John]] | [[John-08|John 08 →]]