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