7:1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldnt walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
7:2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
7:3 His brothers therefore said to him, Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
7:4 For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.
7:5 For even his brothers didnt believe in him.
7:6 Jesus therefore said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7:7 The world cant hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
7:8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.
7:9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
7:10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
7:11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
7:12 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.
7:13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
7:14 But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
7:15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How does this man know letters, having never been educated?
7:16 Jesus therefore answered them, My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
7:17 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.
7:18 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.
7:19 Didnt Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?
7:20 The multitude answered, You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?
7:21 Jesus answered them, I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
7:22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
7:23 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?
7:24 Dont judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
7:25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, Isnt this he whom they seek to kill?
7:26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
7:27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.
7:28 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 dont know.
7:29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.
7:30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
7:31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, When the Christ comes, he wont do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?
7:32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
7:33 Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
7:34 You will seek me, and wont find me; and where I am, you cant come.
7:35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where will this man go that we wont find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
7:36 What is this word that he said, You will seek me, and wont find me; and where I am, you cant come?
7:37 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!
7:38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.
7:39 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 wasnt yet glorified.
7:40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is truly the prophet.
7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
7:42 Hasnt the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?
7:43 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
7:44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
7:45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why didnt you bring him?
7:46 The officers answered, No man ever spoke like this man!
7:47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, You arent also led astray, are you?
7:48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
7:49 But this multitude that doesnt know the law is accursed.
7:50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
7:51 Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?
7:52 They answered him, Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.
7:53 Everyone went to his own house,