John 7 (NET)

John 7:1¹After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:2²Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:3³So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:4⁴For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:5⁵(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:6⁶So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:7⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:8⁸You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:9⁹When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:10¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:11¹¹So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:12¹²There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:13¹³However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:14¹⁴When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:15¹⁵Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:16¹⁶So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:17¹⁷If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:18¹⁸The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:19¹⁹Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:20²⁰The crowd answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:21²¹Jesus replied, “I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:22²²However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:23²³But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:24²⁴Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:25²⁵Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:26²⁶Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the ruling authorities really know that this man is the Christ?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:27²⁷But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:28²⁸Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:29²⁹but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:30³⁰So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:31³¹Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:32³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:33³³Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:34³⁴You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:35³⁵Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:36³⁶What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:37³⁷On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, andCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:38³⁸let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:39³⁹(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:40⁴⁰When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:41⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:42⁴²Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:43⁴³So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:44⁴⁴Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:45⁴⁵Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:46⁴⁶The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:47⁴⁷Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:48⁴⁸None of the members of the ruling council or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:49⁴⁹But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:50⁵⁰Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:51⁵¹“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:52⁵²They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 7:53⁵³[[And each one departed to his own house.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions