John 7:1–53

¹Now after these things Jesus continued walking about in Gal′i‧lee, for he did not want to walk about in Ju‧de′a, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.²However, the festival of the Jews, the festival of tabernacles, was near.³Therefore his brothers said to him: “Pass on over from here and go into Ju‧de′a, in order that your disciples also may behold the works you do.⁴For nobody does anything in secret while himself seeking to be known publicly. If you do these things, manifest yourself to the world.”⁵His brothers were, in fact, not exercising faith in him.⁶Therefore Jesus said to them: “My due time is not yet present, but ​YOUR​ due time is always at hand.⁷The world has no reason to hate ​YOU, but it hates me, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are wicked.⁸YOU​ go up to the festival; I am not yet going up to this festival, because my due time has not yet fully come.”⁹So after he told them these things, he remained in Gal′i‧lee.

¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up himself, not openly but as in secret.¹¹Therefore the Jews began looking for him at the festival and saying: “Where is that [man]?”¹²And there was a lot of subdued talk about him among the crowds. Some would say: “He is a good man.” Others would say: “He is not, but he misleads the crowd.”¹³No one, of course, would speak about him publicly because of the fear of the Jews.

¹⁴When by now the festival was half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.¹⁵Therefore the Jews fell to wondering, saying: “How does this man have a knowledge of letters, when he has not studied at the schools?”¹⁶Jesus, in turn, answered them and said: “What I teach is not mine, but belongs to him that sent me.¹⁷If anyone desires to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching whether it is from God or I speak of my own originality.¹⁸He that speaks of his own originality is seeking his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.¹⁹Moses gave ​YOU​ the Law, did he not? But not one of ​YOU​ obeys the Law. Why are ​YOU​ seeking to kill me?”²⁰The crowd answered: “You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?”²¹In answer Jesus said to them: “One deed I performed, and ​YOU​ are all wondering.²²For this reason Moses has given ​YOU​ the circumcision—not that it is from Moses, but that it is from the forefathers—and ​YOU​ circumcise a man on a sabbath.²³If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath in order that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ​YOU​ violently angry at me because I made a man completely sound in health on a sabbath?²⁴Stop judging from the outward appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

²⁵Therefore some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say: “This is the man they are seeking to kill, is it not?²⁶And yet, see! he is speaking in public, and they say nothing to him. The rulers have not come to know for a certainty that this is the Christ, have they?²⁷On the contrary, we know where this man is from; yet when the Christ comes, no one is to know where he is from.”²⁸Therefore Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple and said: “YOU​ both know me and know where I am from. Also, I have not come of my own initiative, but he that sent me is real, and ​YOU​ do not know him.²⁹I know him, because I am a representative from him, and that One sent me forth.”³⁰Hence they began seeking to get hold of him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.³¹Still, many of the crowd put faith in him; and they commenced saying: “When the Christ arrives, he will not perform more signs than this man has performed, will he?”

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees dispatched officers to get hold of him.³³Therefore Jesus said: “I continue a little while longer with ​YOU​ before I go to him that sent me.³⁴YOU​ will look for me, but ​YOU​ will not find me, and where I am ​YOU​ cannot come.”³⁵Therefore the Jews said among themselves: “Where does this [man] intend going, so that we shall not find him? He does not intend to go to the [Jews] dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?³⁶What does this saying mean that he said, ‘YOU​ will look for me, but ​YOU​ will not find me, and where I am ​YOU​ cannot come’?”

³⁷Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus was standing up and he cried out, saying: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.³⁸He that puts faith in me, just as the Scripture has said, ‘Out from his inmost part streams of living water will flow.’”³⁹However, he said this concerning the spirit which those who put faith in him were about to receive; for as yet there was no spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.⁴⁰Therefore some of the crowd that heard these words began saying: “This is for a certainty The Prophet.”⁴¹Others were saying: “This is the Christ.” But some were saying: “The Christ is not actually coming out of Gal′i‧lee, is he?⁴²Has not the Scripture said that the Christ is coming from the offspring of David, and from Beth′le‧hem the village where David used to be?”⁴³Therefore a division over him developed among the crowd.⁴⁴Some of them, though, were wanting to get hold of him, but no one did lay [his] hands upon him.

⁴⁵Therefore the officers went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, and the latter said to them: “Why is it ​YOU​ did not bring him in?”⁴⁶The officers replied: “Never has [another] man spoken like this.”⁴⁷In turn the Pharisees answered: “YOU​ have not been misled also, have ​YOU?⁴⁸Not one of the rulers or of the Pharisees has put faith in him, has he?⁴⁹But this crowd that does not know the Law are accursed people.”⁵⁰Nic‧o‧de′mus, who had come to him previously, and who was one of them, said to them:⁵¹“Our law does not judge a man unless first it has heard from him and come to know what he is doing, does it?”⁵²In answer they said to him: “You are not also out of Gal′i‧lee, are you? Search and see that no prophet is to be raised up out of Gal′i‧lee.”

^{Manuscripts אBSys​ omit verses 53 to chapter 8, verse 11, which read (with some variations in the various Greek texts and versions) as follows:53}So they went each one to his home.