John · 53 verses
John 7
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The officers came to arrest Jesus and went back empty-handed, carrying only one explanation: “Never has anyone spoken like this man!”
A private journey to a public feastvv. 1–13
Jesus stays in Galilee because people in Judea are trying to kill Him. His brothers, who do not believe in Him, offer the sort of advice that sounds helpful chiefly because it sends someone else into danger: go to the feast and show the world what He can do. Jesus says His time has not come, remains in Galilee, and then goes to the feast after all—quietly, and not at all as advertised. Meanwhile, the crowds whisper that He is either a good man or a deceiver, while fear keeps every opinion indoors.
Teaching in the temple courtsvv. 14–36
Halfway through the feast, Jesus appears in the temple courts and teaches, to the astonishment of those wondering how He acquired such learning. He says His teaching comes from the One who sent Him, then asks why people seek to kill Him. The crowd replies, “You have a demon,” and immediately asks who is trying to kill Him—a remarkably poor memory, since the attempt has just been mentioned. Some try to seize Him, but no one lays a hand on Him. Officers are sent to arrest Him, and Jesus speaks of going to the One who sent Him, leaving everyone to wonder where that might be.
Water, division, and an unsuccessful arrestvv. 37–53
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus calls out about thirst and living water. Some hear a prophet, some hear the Christ, and others object that the Christ cannot come from Galilee, since Scripture speaks of David and Bethlehem. The crowd divides. The officers return without Jesus, explaining their failure by the quality of His speech; the Pharisees are unimpressed and blame the crowd instead. Nicodemus asks whether the law permits condemning a man before hearing him, and is answered with a question about Galilee. Then everyone goes home.
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John 7:1After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
John 7:2However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
John 7:3So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
John 7:4For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
John 7:5For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
John 7:6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
John 7:8Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
John 7:10But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.
John 7:11So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
John 7:12Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”
John 7:13Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
John 7:14About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
John 7:15The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
John 7:16“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
John 7:18He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
John 7:20“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
John 7:21Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
John 7:22But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
John 7:23If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
John 7:24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
John 7:25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
John 7:26Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
John 7:27But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
John 7:28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
John 7:29but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
John 7:31Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”
John 7:32When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.
John 7:33So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
John 7:34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
John 7:35At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
John 7:36What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
John 7:38Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
John 7:39He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
John 7:40On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
John 7:41Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
John 7:42Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
John 7:43So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.
John 7:44Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.
John 7:45Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”
John 7:46“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.
John 7:47“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.
John 7:48“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
John 7:49But this crowd that does not know the law—they are under a curse.”
John 7:50Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
John 7:51“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
John 7:52“Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
John 7:53Then each went to his own home.
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- 38John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- 38Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
- 38Isaiah 58:11The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
- 6John 7:8Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
- 6John 2:4“Woman, what is that to you and to Me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
- 38Isaiah 12:3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
- 6John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
- 6John 17:1When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
- 6John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- 6John 8:20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
- 38John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
- 6Matthew 26:18He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’”
- 38Proverbs 10:11The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- 38Zechariah 14:8And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.
- 38Proverbs 18:4The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
- 37Isaiah 55:1“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
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