John 7

¹And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.

³His brothers therefore said to him, 'Depart from here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also will see your works that you are doing;'

⁴For no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be in the open. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.

⁵For not even his brothers were believing in him.

⁶Jesus therefore said to them, 'My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always ready.'

⁷The world is not able to hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.

⁸You go up to this feast; I am not going up to this feast, because my time has not yet been fulfilled.'

⁹And having said these things, he himself remained in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also himself went up, not openly but as it were in secret.

¹¹The Jews therefore were seeking him at the feast and were saying, 'Where is that man?'

¹²And there was much murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, 'He is good,' while others were saying, 'No, but he leads the crowd astray.'

¹³However, no one was speaking about him openly, because of the fear of the Jews.

¹⁴Now when the feast was already at its midpoint, Jesus went up into the temple and was teaching.

¹⁵The Jews therefore were marveling, saying, 'How does this man know letters, not having been taught?'

¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them and said, 'My teaching is not mine but belongs to the one who sent me.'

¹⁷If anyone wills to do his will, he will know concerning the teaching whether it is from God or I speak from myself.

¹⁸The one speaking from himself seeks his own glory; but the one seeking the glory of the one who sent him, this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

¹⁹Has not Moses given you the law? And yet not one of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?

²⁰The crowd answered and said: You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?

²¹Jesus answered and said to them: I did one work, and you all marvel.

²²Because of this Moses has given you circumcision — not that it is from Moses but from the fathers — and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

²³If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man sound on the Sabbath?

²⁴Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

²⁵Therefore some of the Jerusalemites were saying: Is this not the one whom they seek to kill?

²⁶And behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Could it be that the rulers have truly recognized that this is the Christ?

²⁷But this man we know where he is from; yet when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from.

²⁸Therefore Jesus cried out in the temple while teaching and said: You know me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is genuine, whom you do not know.

²⁹I, however, know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.

³⁰Therefore they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But many of the crowd believed in him, and they were saying: When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these that this man has done?

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

³³Therefore Jesus said to them: Yet a little while I am with you, and then I go to the one who sent me.

³⁴You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am you are not able to come.

³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves: Where is this man about to go that we will not find him? Is he about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

³⁶What is this word that he said: You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am you are not able to come?

³⁷Now on the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

³⁸The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within him.

³⁹Now he said this concerning the Spirit, which those who believed in him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

⁴⁰Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard these words, were saying: This is truly the Prophet.

⁴¹Others were saying: This is the Christ. But others were saying: Surely the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?

⁴²Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

⁴³Therefore a division occurred in the crowd because of him.

⁴⁴And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵Therefore the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and those said to them: Why did you not bring him?

⁴⁶The officers answered: Never has a man spoken like this.

⁴⁷Therefore the Pharisees answered them: Surely you also have not been deceived, have you?

⁴⁸Surely none of the rulers or of the Pharisees has believed in him, have they?

⁴⁹But this crowd that does not know the law — they are accursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus says to them — the one who had come to him before, being one of them —

⁵¹Surely our law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he does, does it?

⁵²They answered and said to him: Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee.