7:1  After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for He showed reluctance to walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill Him.

7:2  Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, drew near.

7:3  Therefore His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You have done.

7:4  "For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks to become known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world."

7:5  For not even His brothers believed in Him.

7:6  So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet arrived, but your time always proves opportune.

7:7  "The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds have become evil.

7:8  "Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come."

7:9  Having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.

7:10  But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.

7:11  So the Jews sought Him at the feast and said, "Have you seen Him?"

7:12  There grew much grumbling among the crowds concerning Him; some said, "We know Him as a good man"; others said, "No, on the contrary, He leads the people astray."

7:13  Yet no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

7:14  But when it had become the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to teach.

7:15  The Jews then became astonished, saying, "How has this man become learned, having never received formal education?"

7:16  So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching does not belong to Me, but belongs to Him who sent Me.

7:17  "If anyone shows willingness to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it comes from God or whether I speak from Myself.

7:18  "He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him, He constitutes truth, and no unrighteousness exists in Him.

7:19  "Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?"

7:20  The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?"

7:21  Jesus answered them, "I did one deed, and you all marvel.

7:22  "For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it comes from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

7:23  "If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that you will not break the Law of Moses , have you become angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

7:24  "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."

7:25  So some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Do they seek to kill this man?

7:26  "Look, He speaks publicly, and they say nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this man constitutes the Christ, do they?

7:27  "However, we know where this man comes from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He comes from."

7:28  Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know Me and know where I come from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me embodies the truth, whom you do not know.

7:29  "I know Him, because I come from Him, and He sent Me."

7:30  So they sought to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

7:31  But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they said, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?"

7:32  The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize Him.

7:33  Therefore Jesus said, "For a little while longer I remain with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.

7:34  "You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I go, you cannot come."

7:35  The Jews then said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He does not intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, does He?

7:36  "What does this statement mean that He said, 'You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I go, you cannot come'?"

7:37  Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

7:38  "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"

7:39  But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him would receive; for God had given the Spirit, because Jesus had not yet received his glorification.

7:40  Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This certainly looks like the Prophet."

7:41  Others said, "We acknowledge Him as the Christ." Still others said, "Surely the Christ would not come from Galilee, would He?

7:42  "Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David came from?"

7:43  So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

7:44  Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

7:45  The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"

7:46  The officers answered, "Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks."

7:47  The Pharisees then answered them, "You have not also fallen under His spell, have you?

7:48  "No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

7:49  "But this crowd which does not know the Law has become accursed."

7:50  Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, having belonged to them) said to them,

7:51  "Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he does, does it?"

7:52  They answered him, "You do not also come from Galilee, do you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee."

7:53  Everyone went to his home.