John 7

VIN^{(i) 1} After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were eager to put him to death. ² However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near. ³ So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing. ⁴ For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.” ⁵ For even his own brothers did not believe in him. ⁶ Therefore Jesus says to them, “My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready. ⁷ the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil. ⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." ⁹ Having said this, he remained in Galilee. ¹⁰ But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret. ¹¹ At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he? ¹² Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.” ¹³ Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews. ¹⁴ About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach. ¹⁵ The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?” ¹⁶ So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me. ¹⁷ If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own. ¹⁸ The man who speaks on his own authority seeks honor for himself; but the man who seeks the honor of him that sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him. ¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet no one of you keeps the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?" ²⁰ “You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?” ²¹ Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all astonished. ²² Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ Stop judging by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment!" ²⁵ Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? ²⁶ And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found 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, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him, ²⁹ but I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me. ³⁰ Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ And many of the people believed in him, and said, When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man has done? ³² The Pharisees heard the people muttering such things about him; and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. ³³ And Jesus said, I am with you just a short while, and I am going to him who sent me. ³⁴ You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.” ³⁵ The Jews said to one another, "Where is this man going that we shall not find him? Will he go to the Jews who are scattered among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean when he said, 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?" ³⁷ Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in Me, just as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” ³⁹ He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. ⁴⁰ On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? ⁴² Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?" ⁴³ So the people were divided because of Him, ⁴⁴ Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him. ⁴⁵ Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?” ⁴⁶ "No man has ever spoken the way he speaks," they replied. ⁴⁷ "What! Have you been led astray too?" the Pharisees replied. ⁴⁸ Has any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him? ⁴⁹ But this mob that does not know the law they're under a curse!" ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier, and who himself was one of them, asked, ⁵¹ "Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out what he has done?" ⁵² They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Search and look, and you will find that no prophet is to rise out of Galilee." ⁵³ Then each went to his own home.