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title: John 7
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createdAt: 2024-09-04T02:25:59.800Z
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**1 **After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. **2 **Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. **3 **His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. **4 **For *there is* no man *that* doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world. **5 **For neither did his brethren believe in him. **6 **Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. **7 **The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. **8 **Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come. **9 **When he had said these words unto them, he abode *still* in Galilee.

**10 **But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. **11 **Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? **12 **And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. **13 **Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

**14 **Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. **15 **And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? **16 **Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. **17 **If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or *whether* I speak of myself. **18 **He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

**19 **Did not Moses give you the law, and *yet* none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? **20 **The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? **21 **Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. **22 **Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. **23 **If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? **24 **Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

**25 **Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? **26 **But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? **27 **Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. **28 **Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. **29 **But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. **30 **Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. **31 **And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this *man* hath done?

**32 **The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. **33 **Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and *then* I go unto him that sent me. **34 **Ye shall seek me, and shall not find *me*: and where I am, *thither* ye cannot come. **35 **Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? **36 **What *manner of* saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find *me*: and where I am, *thither* ye cannot come?

**37 **In the last day, that great *day* of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. **38 **He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. **39 **(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet *given*; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

**40 **Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. **41 **Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? **42 **Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? **43 **So there was a division among the people because of him. **44 **And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

**45 **Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? **46 **The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. **47 **Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? **48 **Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? **49 **But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. **50 **Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) **51 **Doth our law judge *any* man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? **52 **They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. **53 **And every man went unto his own house.