RKJNT - John - 7

7:1  After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

7:2  Now the Jewish feast of tabernacles was at hand.

7:3  His brothers said to him, Depart from here, and go into Judaea, that your disciples may also see the works that you do.

7:4  For there is no man who does anything in secret, if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.

7:5  For his brothers did not believe in him either.

7:6  Then Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come: but your time is always here.

7:7  The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

7:8  You go up to this feast: I am not going up to this feast; for my time has not yet fully come.

7:9  When he had said these words to them, he remained in Galilee.

7:10  But when his brothers had gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

7:11  Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

7:12  And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, No; he deceives the people.

7:13  Yet no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

7:14  Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

7:15  And the Jews marvelled, saying, How has this man become learned, having never studied?

7:16  Jesus answered them, and said, My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

7:17  If any man is willing to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

7:18  He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory: but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

7:19  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?

7:20  The people answered and said, You have a devil: who seeks to kill you?

7:21  Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and you all marvel.

7:22  Moses gave you circumcision; (though it is not from Moses, but from the fathers;) and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.

7:23  If a man may receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are you angry at me, because I have made an entire man well on the sabbath day?

7:24  Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteously.

7:25  Then some people of Jerusalem said, Is this not the man whom they seek to kill?

7:26  But, lo, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this is the Christ?

7:27  Yet we know where this man is from: but when the Christ comes, no man will know where he is from.

7:28  Then Jesus cried out in the temple as he taught, saying, You both know me, and you know where I am from: and I have not come of my own accord, but he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

7:29  But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me.

7:30  Then they sought to seize him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

7:31  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?

7:32  The Pharisees heard the people muttering such things about him; and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

7:33  Then Jesus said to them, Yet for a little while shall I be with you, and then I go to him who sent me.

7:34  You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there you cannot come.

7:35  Then the Jews said among themselves, Where will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go to those dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

7:36  What manner of saying is this, You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there you cannot come?

7:37  On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

7:38  He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.

7:39  (But this he spoke of the Spirit, which those who believe in him were to receive: for the Holy Spirit had not yet been given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

7:40  Many of the people, when they heard this, said, Truly this is the Prophet.

7:41  Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?

7:42  Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes from the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, the village where David lived?

7:43  So there was a division among the people because of him.

7:44  And some would have seized him; but no man laid hands on him.

7:45  Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees; who said to them, Why have you not brought him?

7:46  The officers answered, Never did a man speak like this man.

7:47  Then the Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived?

7:48  Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him?

7:49  But this crowd, which does not know the law, is cursed.

7:50  Nicodemus (who came to Jesus earlier, and who was one of them) said to them,

7:51  Does our law judge any man, before it hears him, and knows what he is doing?

7:52  They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see: no prophet arises out of Galilee.

7:53  [And everyone went to his own house.