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| RF JOH 7:1 | After this Jesus travelled in Galilee; for He would not travel in Judea, because the Judeans were seeking to murder Him. |
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| RF JOH 7:2 | Third Visit to Jerusalem.
When the Judean feast of Tabernacles was near, His brothers said to Him: |
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| RF JOH 7:3 | "Remove from here and go into Judea, so that those disciples of Yours may also see the works which You do; |
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| RF JOH 7:4 | for no one does anything privately who desires to become famous himself. If You do them, exhibit Yourself to the world." |
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| RF JOH 7:5 | For even His brothers did not believe in Him. |
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| RF JOH 7:6 | Jesus, therefore, answered them: "My opportunity has not yet arrived; but your opportunity is always at hand. |
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| RF JOH 7:7 | The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me, because I give evidence against it, that its doings are wicked. |
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| RF JOH 7:8 | You yourselves can go up to the festival; I am not going up yet to this festival, because My time is not yet fulfilled." |
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| RF JOH 7:9 | And, having told them this, He stayed in Galilee. |
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| RF JOH 7:10 | Discourses at the Feast of Tabernacles.
When His brothers had gone up to the festival, however, He also went up Himself—not publicly, but quietly. |
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| RF JOH 7:11 | The Judeans were, however, searching for Him at the festival, and kept asking, "Where is He?" |
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| RF JOH 7:12 | And there was much muttering among the crowds respecting Him. Some even said, "He is a benefactor"; while others exclaimed, "Not He! On the contrary, He deceives the multitude." |
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| RF JOH 7:13 | None, however, spoke openly about Him, for fear of the Judeans. |
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| RF JOH 7:14 | When, however, the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the temple, and began teaching. |
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| RF JOH 7:15 | The Judeans then, in their astonishment, exclaimed:
"How can this fellow know theology, having never studied?" |
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| RF JOH 7:16 | Jesus, in reply to them, said: "My teaching is not My own, but that of My Sender. |
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| RF JOH 7:17 | If any one desires to conform to His purpose, he will recognize the doctrine, whether it originates from God, or whether I speak from Myself. |
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| RF JOH 7:18 | The man who speaks from himself studies his own reputation; but the One Whose aim is to honour His Sender, He is true, and there is no falsehood in Him. |
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| RF JOH 7:19 | Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you observe the law! Why do you aim at murdering Me?" |
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| RF JOH 7:20 | The crowd replied, "You have a demon. Who wants to murder You?" |
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| RF JOH 7:21 | "I have done one thing," said Jesus in reply to them, "and you were all astonished." |
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| RF JOH 7:22 | "Moses instituted the circumcision among you for a purpose (not, however, that it originated with Moses, but with your ancestors); and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. |
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| RF JOH 7:23 | If, then, a man is circumcised on a Sabbath, so that the Law of Moses may not be disregarded, why are you furious against Me because I have restored a grown man to perfect health on a Sabbath? |
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| RF JOH 7:24 | Do not decide at a glance, but think out the decision judicially." |
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| RF JOH 7:25 | Some of those of Jerusalem then remarked:
"Is not this the Man Whom they wish to murder? |
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| RF JOH 7:26 | Yet here He is speaking in public, and they say nothing to Him! Perhaps, however, the authorities have come to recognize the fact that this Man is the Messiah?" |
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| RF JOH 7:27 | [Others said], "We know where this fellow comes from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know from where He comes." |
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| RF JOH 7:28 | Jesus therefore shouted, when teaching in the temple, saying: "You both know Me, and know from where I come; and that I have not come from Myself. But My Sender is true, Whom you do not know. |
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| RF JOH 7:29 | I know Him; because I am from Him, and He Himself sent Me." |
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| RF JOH 7:30 | They therefore sought to arrest Him; yet none laid hands upon Him, because His time had not arrived. |
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| RF JOH 7:31 | Among the crowd, however, many believed in Him, and said:
"When the Messiah does come, will He produce more proofs than this Man has done?" |
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| RF JOH 7:32 | An Attempt to Arrest Jesus.
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering about Him in this way; and the chief priests and the Pharisees dispatched officers to arrest Him. |
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| RF JOH 7:33 | Jesus therefore said: "For a little time, I am still with you, then I go to Him Who sent Me. |
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| RF JOH 7:34 | You will search for Me, and fail to find Me; and where I am you are unable to come." |
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| RF JOH 7:35 | The Judeans, therefore, remarked to one another thus: "Where will this fellow go, that we cannot find Him? Surely He will not go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? |
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| RF JOH 7:36 | What is the Man's meaning, when He says: 'You will search for Me, and fail to find Me? and where I am, you are not able to come?'" |
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| RF JOH 7:37 | Now on the closing day, the Great Day of the festival, Jesus stood up, and called aloud, exclaiming: "If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. |
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| RF JOH 7:38 | Whoever trusts in Me, as the Scripture says,
RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS SHALL FLOW OUT FROM HIS HEART."1 |
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| RF JOH 7:39 | [He said this, however, in reference to the Spirit, which the believers in Him were afterwards to receive; for The Spirit was not yet revealed, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.] |
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| RF JOH 7:40 | Many among the crowd, hearing this declaration, then began to say: "This is certainly the Prophet." |
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| RF JOH 7:41 | Others remarked: "This is the Messiah." But some said: "What! Does the Messiah come out of Galilee? |
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| RF JOH 7:42 | Has not the Scripture said that the Messiah shall come from the race of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" |
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| RF JOH 7:43 | So a division took place among the crowd on account of Him. |
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| RF JOH 7:44 | And some of them wished to arrest Him; yet no one laid hands upon Him. |
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| RF JOH 7:45 | The officers, however, returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them: "Why have you not brought Him?" |
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| RF JOH 7:46 | "No one ever spoke like this Man," they replied. |
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| RF JOH 7:47 | The Pharisees therefore retorted: "Are you also led astray? |
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| RF JOH 7:48 | Have any of the nobles or of the Pharisees believed in Him? |
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| RF JOH 7:49 | But this mob, that know not the law, are contemptible." |
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| RF JOH 7:50 | Nicodemus, Who was one Of themselves, and who had previously come to Him, said to them: |
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| RF JOH 7:51 | "Would our law convict a man, if it had not first examined about Him, and ascertained what he has done?" |
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| RF JOH 7:52 | They retorted, and said to Him: "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has ever sprung from Galilee." 2
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1. Zech.14.8
2. The narrative of the sinful woman (John 7:53 to 8:11) is rejected by the most competent authorities as a spurious interpolation. The question will be found fully discussed in the introduction to the larger edition of Westcott and Hon's Greek New Testament (page 299, section 388); and it is given as their opinion that this particular passage "has no right to a place in the Text of the Four Gospels." The language of the MSS. containing the passage varies considerably, but the generally accepted reading I have added at the end of this Gospel, where it is placed as an appendix for reference, but not in any way as a part of the Sacred Text. |
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| RF JOH 7:53 | [Every one then went to his own home. |
