John 7:16-53 ▼

16 Therefore Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not of Me, but of the One having sent Me.

17 If anyone should desire to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak from Myself.

18 The one speaking from himself seeks his own glory, but the One seeking the glory of the One having sent Him, He is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

19 Has not Moses given to you? the law? And none of you? does the law. Why do you? seek to kill Me?”

20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon. Who seeks to kill You?”

21 Jesus answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you? all marvel.

22 Because of this Moses has given to you? the circumcision—not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers—and on the Sabbath you? circumcise a man.

23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses might not be broken, are you? angry with Me because I made the whole man sound on the Sabbath?

24 Do not judge according to appearance, but judge the righteous judgment.”

25 Therefore some of those of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not whom they seek to kill?

26 And behold, He speaks publicly, and they say nothing ever to Him. Did the rulers truly know that this is the Christ?

27 But we know this man, where He is from. But the Christ, when He may come, no one knows where He is from.”

28 Therefore Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You? know Me and you? know where I am from. And I have not come of Myself, but the One having sent Me is true, whom you? do not know.

29 I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

30 Therefore they were seeking to seize Him, but no one laid the hand upon Him, because His hour had not yet come.

31 But many out of the crowd believed in Him and were saying, “When the Christ shall come, will He do more signs than this man did?”

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers so that they might seize Him.

33 Therefore Jesus said, “Yet a little time I am with you?, and I go to the One having sent Me.

34 You? will seek Me and will not find Me; and where I am, you? are not able to come.”

35 Therefore the Jews said among themselves, “Where is He about to go that we will not find Him? Is He about to go to the Diaspora among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What is this word that He said, ‘You? will seek Me, and will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you? are not able to come’?”

37 Now in the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone may thirst, let him come to Me and drink.

38 The one believing in Me, as the Scripture said: ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’”

39 Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those having believed in Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

40 Therefore, having heard these words, some of the crowd were saying, “This is truly the Prophet.”

41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” But others were saying, “How indeed does the Christ come out of Galilee?

42 Did not the Scripture say that out of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was, comes the Christ?”

43 Therefore a division happened in the crowd because of Him.

44 Now some of them were wanting to seize Him, but no one laid the hands on Him.

45 Therefore the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you? not bring Him?”

46 The officers answered, “Never did a man speak thus, as this man speaks!”

47 Therefore the Pharisees answered them, “Have you? also been deceived?

48 Did anyone out of the rulers or out of the Pharisees believe in Him?

49 But this crowd, not knowing the law, they are accursed.”

50 Nicodemus, the one having come to Him before, being one of them, says to them,

51 “Does our law judge the man unless it should first hear from him and know what he does?”

52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also out of Galilee? Search and see that out of Galilee a prophet is not raised.”

53 And each went to his home.