| Chapter 7 |
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After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. |
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Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. |
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His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. |
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For no man does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." |
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For even his brothers didn`t believe in him. |
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Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. |
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The world can`t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. |
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You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." |
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Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. |
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But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. |
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The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" |
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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." |
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Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. |
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But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. |
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The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" |
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Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. |
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If anyone desires to do his will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I speak from myself. |
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He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. |
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Didn`t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" |
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The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" |
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Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. |
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Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. |
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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 every bit whole on the Sabbath? |
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Don`t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." |
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Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn`t this he whom they seek to kill? |
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Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? |
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However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from." |
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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. |
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I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." |
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They sought therefore to take him. No one laid a hand on him, because his hour was not yet come. |
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But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those which this man has done?" |
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The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him. |
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Then Jesus said, "Yet a little while, am I with you, then I go to him who sent me. |
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You will seek me, and won`t find me; and where I am, you can`t come." |
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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? |
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What is this word that he said, `You will seek me, and won`t find me; and where I am, you can`t come?`" |
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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! |
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He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." |
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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. |
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Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." |
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Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? |
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Hasn`t the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" |
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So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. |
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Some of them would have taken him, but no one laid hands on him. |
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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn`t you bring him?" |
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The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" |
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The Pharisees therefore answered them, "Are you also led astray? |
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Has any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? |
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But this cursed multitude doesn`t know the law." |
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Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, |
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"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" |
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They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." |
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Everyone went to his own house, |