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If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For neither did his brethren believe in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil, <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Go you up to this festival day: but I go not up to this festival day, because my time is not accomplished. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day and said: Where is he? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment.</p> <p class="hdg">Is Jesus the Messiah?</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth, whence he is. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But of the people many believed in him and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles than this man doth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come?</p> <p class="hdg">Living Water</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.</p> <p class="hdg">Division of People over Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David and from Bethlehem the town where David was? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him.</p> <p class="hdg">Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one of them): <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know what he doth? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/7-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>And every man returned to his own house.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>