New Testament · Gospels and Acts

John chapter 7

After this, Jesus traveled around . He deliberately avoided Judea because the there were trying to kill him.Now the Jewish was coming up.So his said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your there can see the things you’re doing.”“Nobody who wants to be known publicly does things in secret. Since you’re doing these things, show yourself to the .”Even his own brothers didn’t him.Jesus told them, “My hasn’t arrived yet, but for you, any time works.”“The world can’t hate you, but it hates me because I keep telling it that what it does is .”“You go on up to the festival. I’m not going up to this festival yet because my time hasn’t .”After saying this, he stayed behind in Galilee.But after his brothers had left for the festival, he went too — just not publicly, more like .The were looking for him at the , asking, “Where is that man?”There was a lot of about him in the crowds. Some said, “He’s a good man.” Others said, “No, he’s the people.”But nobody talked about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the and started teaching.The Jewish leaders were amazed, saying, “How does this man know so much about the without having been ?”Jesus answered them, “What I teach isn’t mine — it comes from .”“If anyone , they’ll know whether my teaching comes from God or whether I’m just making it up on my own.”“Someone who speaks from their own agenda is looking for their own . But someone who works to honor the one who sent him — that person is , and there’s nothing fake about them.”“Didn’t Moses give you ? Yet not one of you actually follows it. So why are you trying to kill me?”The crowd answered, “You’re ! Who’s trying to kill you?”Jesus answered them, “I did and you’re all shocked by it.”“Moses gave you — not that it actually started with Moses, it goes back to — and you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.”“If a boy can be circumcised on the so that the Law of Moses isn’t broken, why are you furious with me for making someone’s on the Sabbath?”“Stop judging by appearances. Judge by .”Some of the started saying, “Isn’t this the man they’re trying to kill?”“And here he is, , and they’re not saying anything to him. Could the leaders actually know that this is ?”“But we know where this man is from. When The One comes, .”So Jesus while teaching in the temple, “You think you know me and where I’m from? But I didn’t come on my own. The one who sent me is — and you don’t know him.”“I know him because , and he’s the one who sent me.”At this, they tried to grab him, but nobody laid a hand on him because hadn’t come yet.But many in the crowd him, saying, “When The One comes, will he really do more than this man has done?”The heard the crowd whispering these things about him, so the chief priests and Pharisees sent to arrest him.Jesus said, “I’m only going to be with you , and then I’m going back to the one who sent me.”“You’ll look for me but you won’t find me. And .”The Jewish leaders said to each other, “Where is this man planning to go that we won’t be able to find him? Is he going to go to and teach Greeks?”“What does he mean by saying, ‘You’ll look for me but you won’t find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”On of the festival, Jesus stood up and called out, “If anyone is , come to me and drink!”“Whoever me — just as Scripture says — rivers of will flow .”He was talking about , which those who trusted in him would later receive. The Breath hadn’t been given yet because Jesus hadn’t yet been .When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, “This really is .”Others said, “This is !” But some argued, “The One doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?”“Doesn’t Scripture say that The One comes from and from , the town where David lived?”So the crowd was over him.Some of them wanted to arrest him, but nobody actually .The temple guards went back to the and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”The guards answered, “Nobody has ever the way this man speaks.”The Pharisees shot back, “So he’s you too?”“Has a single one of the or Pharisees believed in him? No!”“But this crowd that — they’re .” — the one who had gone to Jesus earlier and was one of them — spoke up:“ doesn’t condemn someone without first hearing them out and finding out what they’ve done, does it?”They at him, “Are you from Galilee too? Look into it — .”Then they each went to their own home.