John 7

Jesus Teaches at the Feast

1 After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him. ‡ Jhn 5:16-18Jhn 4:3Mat 21:38Jhn 7:19Mat 10:23Act 10:38Luk 13:31-33Jhn 1:19 +62 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles ¹was near. ‡ Zec 14:16-19Deu 16:13-16Exo 23:16-17Lev 23:34-43Num 29:12-381Ki 8:21Ki 8:652Ch 7:9-10 +23 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing. ‡ Mat 12:46Jhn 7:51Sa 17:28Act 2:14Gen 37:20Gen 37:5-11Jer 12:6Jhn 7:10 +34 For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.” ‡ Jhn 18:20Pro 18:1-2Luk 6:45Mat 23:5Mat 6:5Mat 6:1-21Ki 22:13Mat 4:6 +25 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him. ‡ Mrk 3:21Jhn 1:11-13Jhn 7:10Jhn 7:3Mic 7:5-6

6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come. ‡ Jhn 7:8Jhn 2:4Jhn 7:30Jhn 17:1Jhn 13:1Jhn 8:20Mat 26:18Act 1:7 +27 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil. ‡ Jhn 15:18-19Jhn 3:19Gal 4:16Pro 9:7-8Jas 4:41Jn 4:5Jhn 17:141Ki 21:20 +178 Go up to the feast on your own. I am not ²going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.” ‡ Jhn 7:6Jhn 8:201Co 2:15-16Jhn 7:30Jhn 11:6-7Jhn 8:30

9 Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee. 10 But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret. ‡ Amo 5:13Mat 10:16Isa 42:2-3Gal 4:4Jhn 11:54Jhn 7:3Jhn 7:5Mat 3:15 +2

11 So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?” ‡ Jhn 11:56

12 Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” ‡ Jhn 7:40-43Jhn 9:16Act 11:24Jhn 7:32Jhn 7:47Jhn 10:19-21Jhn 6:14Jhn 7:52 +12

But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”

13 Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews. ‡ Jhn 9:22Jhn 19:38Jhn 12:42-43Jhn 20:19Pro 29:25Rev 2:132Ti 2:9-13Gal 2:12-13 +2

14 About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts ³and began to teach. ‡ Jhn 7:28Luk 19:47Hag 2:7-9Jhn 18:20Jhn 8:2Jhn 5:14Jhn 7:2Jhn 7:37 +715 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?” ‡ Luk 4:22Mat 13:54Mat 7:28-29Act 26:24Jhn 7:46Luk 2:47Mat 22:22Act 2:7-13 +5

16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me. ‡ Jhn 14:10Jhn 14:24Jhn 12:49-50Jhn 17:8Jhn 5:23-24Jhn 5:30Jhn 6:38-40Jhn 17:14 +517 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own. ‡ Jhn 8:31-32Jhn 8:43Jer 31:33-34Jhn 8:47Dan 12:10Psa 25:8-9Php 3:15-16Act 17:11 +1318 He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood. ‡ Jhn 5:41Php 2:3-51Co 10:31-33Jhn 13:31-32Jhn 12:28Jhn 8:49-501Th 2:6Jhn 17:4-5 +919 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?” ‡ Jhn 1:17Jhn 7:1Jhn 11:53Mat 12:14Deu 1:17Deu 33:4Exo 24:2-3Gal 6:13 +18

20 “You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?” ‡ Jhn 10:20Jhn 8:48Mrk 3:21-22Jhn 8:52Mrk 3:30Act 26:24Mat 10:25Mat 11:18-19 +1

21 Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. ‡ Jhn 5:2-11Jhn 7:23 22 But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.) ‡ Lev 12:3Gen 17:10-14Rom 4:9-11Gal 3:17 23 If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath? ‡ Jhn 5:14-16Mat 12:2Mat 12:5Jhn 5:8-9 24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.” ‡ Isa 11:3-4Jas 2:9Jhn 8:15Pro 17:15Pro 24:23Jas 2:1Deu 1:16-17Deu 16:18-19 +6

Is Jesus the Christ?

25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? ‡ Jhn 7:10-11 26 Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ? ‡ 2Ti 1:7-8Eph 6:19-20Jhn 7:48Act 4:13Isa 42:4Isa 50:7-8Jhn 11:47-53Jhn 9:22 +727 But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.” ‡ Mic 5:2Jhn 7:41-42Jhn 6:42Jhn 9:29Mat 13:54-57Jer 30:21Mrk 6:3Isa 11:1 +6

28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him, ‡ Jhn 8:42Jhn 8:19Jer 9:6Jhn 12:49Jhn 5:43Jhn 8:14Jhn 8:261Jn 2:3-4 +3529 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.” ‡ Jhn 8:55Mat 11:271Jn 4:9Jhn 1:18Jhn 17:18Jhn 17:25-26Jhn 3:16-17Jhn 6:46 +5

30 So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. ‡ Jhn 10:39Jhn 7:6Jhn 8:20Jhn 7:32Isa 46:10Jhn 11:57Jhn 11:9-10Jhn 7:19 +1331 Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?” ‡ Jhn 12:42Mat 12:23Act 8:13Jhn 10:41-42Jhn 11:45Jhn 8:30-32Jas 2:26Jhn 12:11 +9

32 When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him. ‡ Act 5:26Mat 12:23-24Jhn 11:47-48Jhn 12:19Jhn 18:3Jhn 7:45-53Luk 22:52-53Mat 23:13 33 So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me. ‡ Jhn 13:33Jhn 16:5Jhn 14:19Jhn 17:11Jhn 17:13Mrk 16:19Jhn 12:35-36Jhn 13:1 +434 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.” ‡ Jhn 13:33-36Pro 1:24-31Hos 5:6Jhn 14:3Jhn 14:6Jhn 17:24Jhn 8:21-24Luk 13:34-35 +3

35 At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, ⁴ and teach the Greeks? ‡ Jas 1:11Pe 1:1Isa 11:12Zep 3:10Isa 11:10Jhn 12:201Ti 2:72Ti 1:11 +1336 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?” ‡ Jhn 3:91Co 2:14Jhn 7:34Jhn 12:34Jhn 16:17-18Jhn 3:4Jhn 6:41Jhn 6:52 +1

Living Water

37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. ‡ Isa 55:1Jhn 4:14Jhn 6:35Isa 12:3Rev 22:17Isa 44:3Jhn 4:10Psa 42:2 +3838 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” ‡ Jhn 4:14Isa 44:3Isa 58:11Isa 12:3Jhn 4:10Pro 10:11Zec 14:8Pro 18:4 +639 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, ⁵ because Jesus had not yet been glorified. ‡ Act 2:17Jol 2:28Jhn 14:16-17Act 2:33Isa 32:15Jhn 16:7Act 2:4Isa 44:3 +30

Division over Jesus

40 On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.” ‡ Mat 21:11Jhn 1:21Jhn 6:14

41 Others declared, “This is the Christ.” ‡ Jhn 7:52Jhn 1:46Jhn 1:49Jhn 1:41Jhn 4:25Jhn 4:29Jhn 4:42Jhn 6:69 +2

But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? 42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived? ⁶” ‡ Mic 5:2Mat 2:5Jer 23:5Luk 2:4Isa 11:1Luk 2:11Mat 1:11Sa 16:1 +7

43 So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus. ‡ Jhn 10:19Jhn 9:16Jhn 7:12Luk 12:51Act 14:4Act 23:7-10Mat 10:35 44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him. ‡ Act 23:11Jhn 7:30Jhn 8:20Act 18:10Act 27:23-25Jhn 18:5-6

The Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders

45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?” ‡ Jhn 7:32Act 5:21-27

46 “Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered. ‡ Mat 7:28-29Luk 4:22Jhn 7:26

47 “Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees. ‡ Jhn 7:122Co 6:82Ch 32:152Ki 18:292Ki 18:32Jhn 9:27-34Mat 27:63 48 “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him? ‡ Jhn 12:421Co 1:201Co 2:8Jhn 7:261Co 1:22-28Act 6:7Jer 5:4-5Jhn 7:50 +149 But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.” ‡ 1Co 1:20-211Co 3:18-20Jas 3:13-18Jhn 9:34Jhn 9:40Isa 28:14Isa 29:14-19Isa 5:21 +1

50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked, ‡ Jhn 19:39Jhn 3:1-2 51 “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?” ‡ Pro 18:13Deu 1:17Act 23:3Deu 19:15-19Deu 17:6Deu 17:8-11

52 “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.” ⁷ ‡ Jhn 7:41Jhn 1:46Isa 9:1-2Mat 4:15-161Ki 22:24Exo 2:14Gen 19:9Jhn 9:34 +1

53 Then each went to his own home. ‡ Psa 33:10Job 5:12-13Psa 76:10Psa 76:5