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