John 7

1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ‡ Jhn 5:16-18Jhn 4:3Mat 21:38Jhn 7:19Mat 10:23Act 10:38Luk 13:31-33Jhn 1:19 +62 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. ‡ Zec 14:16-19Deu 16:13-16Exo 23:16-17Lev 23:34-43Num 29:12-381Ki 8:21Ki 8:652Ch 7:9-10 +23 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. ‡ Mat 12:46Jhn 7:51Sa 17:28Act 2:14Gen 37:20Gen 37:5-11Jer 12:6Jhn 7:10 +34 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal 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 brothers didn’t believe in him. ‡ Mrk 3:21Jhn 1:11-13Jhn 7:10Jhn 7:3Mic 7:5-6

6 Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ‡ Jhn 7:8Jhn 2:4Jhn 7:30Jhn 17:1Jhn 13:1Jhn 8:20Mat 26:18Act 1:7 +27 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, 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 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.” ‡ Jhn 7:6Jhn 8:201Co 2:15-16Jhn 7:30Jhn 11:6-7Jhn 8:30

9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ‡ Amo 5:13Mat 10:16Isa 42:2-3Gal 4:4Jhn 11:54Jhn 7:3Jhn 7:5Mat 3:15 +211 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” ‡ Jhn 11:56 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.” ‡ Jhn 7:40-43Jhn 9:16Act 11:24Jhn 7:32Jhn 7:47Jhn 10:19-21Jhn 6:14Jhn 7:52 +1213 Yet no one spoke openly of 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 +214 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ‡ Jhn 7:28Luk 19:47Hag 2:7-9Jhn 18:20Jhn 8:2Jhn 5:14Jhn 7:2Jhn 7:37 +715 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?” ‡ Luk 4:22Mat 13:54Mat 7:28-29Act 26:24Jhn 7:46Luk 2:47Mat 22:22Act 2:7-13 +5

16 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his 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 about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself. ‡ 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 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. ‡ Jhn 5:41Php 2:3-51Co 10:31-33Jhn 13:31-32Jhn 12:28Jhn 8:49-501Th 2:6Jhn 17:4-5 +919 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?” ‡ Jhn 1:17Jhn 7:1Jhn 11:53Mat 12:14Deu 1:17Deu 33:4Exo 24:2-3Gal 6:13 +18

20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks 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 work and you all marvel because of it. ‡ Jhn 5:2-11Jhn 7:23 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. ‡ Lev 12:3Gen 17:10-14Rom 4:9-11Gal 3:17 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? ‡ Jhn 5:14-16Mat 12:2Mat 12:5Jhn 5:8-9 24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” ‡ Isa 11:3-4Jas 2:9Jhn 8:15Pro 17:15Pro 24:23Jas 2:1Deu 1:16-17Deu 16:18-19 +6

25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? ‡ Jhn 7:10-11 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? ‡ 2Ti 1:7-8Eph 6:19-20Jhn 7:48Act 4:13Isa 42:4Isa 50:7-8Jhn 11:47-53Jhn 9:22 +727 However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.” ‡ Mic 5:2Jhn 7:41-42Jhn 6:42Jhn 9:29Mat 13:54-57Jer 30:21Mrk 6:3Isa 11:1 +6

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 don’t know. ‡ Jhn 8:42Jhn 8:19Jer 9:6Jhn 12:49Jhn 5:43Jhn 8:14Jhn 8:261Jn 2:3-4 +3529 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 They sought therefore to take 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 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?” ‡ Jhn 12:42Mat 12:23Act 8:13Jhn 10:41-42Jhn 11:45Jhn 8:30-32Jas 2:26Jhn 12:11 +932 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees 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 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. ‡ Jhn 13:33Jhn 16:5Jhn 14:19Jhn 17:11Jhn 17:13Mrk 16:19Jhn 12:35-36Jhn 13:1 +434 You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.” ‡ Jhn 13:33-36Pro 1:24-31Hos 5:6Jhn 14:3Jhn 14:6Jhn 17:24Jhn 8:21-24Luk 13:34-35 +3

35 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? ‡ Jas 1:11Pe 1:1Isa 11:12Zep 3:10Isa 11:10Jhn 12:201Ti 2:72Ti 1:11 +1336 What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’ ?” ‡ Jhn 3:91Co 2:14Jhn 7:34Jhn 12:34Jhn 16:17-18Jhn 3:4Jhn 6:41Jhn 6:52 +1

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! ‡ Isa 55:1Jhn 4:14Jhn 6:35Isa 12:3Rev 22:17Isa 44:3Jhn 4:10Psa 42:2 +3838 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” ‡ Jhn 4:14Isa 44:3Isa 58:11Isa 12:3Jhn 4:10Pro 10:11Zec 14:8Pro 18:4 +639 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. ‡ Act 2:17Jol 2:28Jhn 14:16-17Act 2:33Isa 32:15Jhn 16:7Act 2:4Isa 44:3 +30

40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.” ‡ Mat 21:11Jhn 1:21Jhn 6:14 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? ‡ Jhn 7:52Jhn 1:46Jhn 1:49Jhn 1:41Jhn 4:25Jhn 4:29Jhn 4:42Jhn 6:69 +242 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring ¹ of David, ² and from Bethlehem, ³ the village where David was?” ‡ Mic 5:2Mat 2:5Jer 23:5Luk 2:4Isa 11:1Luk 2:11Mat 1:11Sa 16:1 +743 So a division arose in the multitude because of him. ‡ Jhn 10:19Jhn 9:16Jhn 7:12Luk 12:51Act 14:4Act 23:7-10Mat 10:35 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ‡ Act 23:11Jhn 7:30Jhn 8:20Act 18:10Act 27:23-25Jhn 18:5-6 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” ‡ Jhn 7:32Act 5:21-27

46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” ‡ Mat 7:28-29Luk 4:22Jhn 7:26

47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? ‡ Jhn 7:122Co 6:82Ch 32:152Ki 18:292Ki 18:32Jhn 9:27-34Mat 27:63 48 Have any of the rulers or any of the 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 multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.” ‡ 1Co 1:20-211Co 3:18-20Jas 3:13-18Jhn 9:34Jhn 9:40Isa 28:14Isa 29:14-19Isa 5:21 +1

50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ‡ Jhn 19:39Jhn 3:1-2 51 “Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” ‡ Pro 18:13Deu 1:17Act 23:3Deu 19:15-19Deu 17:6Deu 17:8-11

52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” ⁴ ‡ Jhn 7:41Jhn 1:46Isa 9:1-2Mat 4:15-161Ki 22:24Exo 2:14Gen 19:9Jhn 9:34 +1

53 Everyone went to his own house, ‡ Psa 33:10Job 5:12-13Psa 76:10Psa 76:5