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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>John 7 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</a> > John 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/6.htm" title="John 6">◄</a> John 7 <a href="../john/8.htm" title="John 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">World English Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/heb/john/7.shtml"> [Par] </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus Teaches at the Feast</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For even his brothers didn’t believe in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” </p> <p class="hdg">Is Jesus the Messiah?</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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?” </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?” </p> <p class="hdg">Living Water</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>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! <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>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. </p> <p class="hdg">Division of People over Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>So a division arose in the multitude because of him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. </p> <p class="hdg">Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/7-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>Everyone went to his own house, </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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