John Chapter 7
Attack of the Jerusalem Pharisees
About Traditions
1 After that, Jesus was traveling around in Galilee. He didn’t want to travel around in Judaea because the Jews were trying to kill him.
Jn 7:1
Jesus and His Unbelieving Brothers
2 The Jews’ Festival of Unleavened Bread was coming up. 3 Jesus’ brothers told him, “Go to Judaea so your disciples can see what you’re doing. 4 Nobody does something privately when he’s trying to get known publicly. If you’re doing these things, show yourself to the world.” ( 5 Even his brothers didn’t believe in him.)
6 Jesus toldp them, “It’s not time for me to go yet. You can go anytime. 7 The world can’t hate you; it hates me because I speak to the fact that it does sinful things. 8 You go on up; it’s not time for me to go up to this festival yet.”
9 He stayed in Galilee.
Jn 7:2-9
Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles
10 Then Jesus went up secretly. 11 The Jews were looking for him at the festival, “Where is he?” 12 A lot of murmuring was going on in the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others said, “No, he’s misleading the crowd.” 13 But, people wouldn’t talk openly about him because they were afraid of the Jews.
14 In the middle of the festival, Jesus did go up to the Temple and start teaching. 15 The Jews were amazed, “How does he know letters without going to school?”
16 Jesus answered,
“My teaching’s not mine; it’s the teaching of the One that sent me. 17 If anybody wants to do his will, he’ll know if my teaching is from God or if I’m speaking on my own. 18 Somebody that speaks on his own is looking for his own honor. Somebody that’s looking for the honor of the One that sent him is genuine; there’s nothing dishonest about him. 19 Didn’t Moses give you the Law? But none of you keep it. Why are you trying to kill me?”
Jn 7:10-19
20 The crowd answered, “You’ve got a demon. Who’s trying to kill you?”
21 Jesus responded,
“I did one thing, and it amazed you all. 22 Moses gave you circumcision—not that it originated with him but with the ancestors—and you circumcise a man on a Sabbath. 23 If you circumcise a man on a Sabbath to avoid breaking the Law, are you mad at me because I made a whole man well on a Sabbath? 24 Don’t make superficial judgments; base your judgments on what’s real.”
25 Some that lived in Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the One they’re trying to put to death? 26 And look, he’s speaking openly, and they’re not saying anything to him. Do the rulers know maybe that he is the Messiah?”
27 “But we know where this man’s from. Nobody knows where the Messiah’s from.”
28 Then, as he was teaching, he shouted, “You know me, and you know where I’m from! I haven’t come on my own; the One that’s true sent me. You don’t know him; 29 but I do, because he sent me.”
Jn 7:20-29
30 They were trying to arrest him, but nobody laid a hand on him because it wasn’t time yet. 31 Many in the crowd believed in him, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t do more signs than this man’s done, will he?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring those things, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33 Jesus said, “I’ll be with you for a little while yet; then I’ll go back to the One that sent me. 34 You’ll look for me, but you won’t find me. You can’t go where I’m going.”
35 The Jews said to each other, “Where’s he going that we won’t find him? He’s not going to the Diaspora among the Greeks to teach the Greeks, is he? 36 What does he mean, ‘You’ll look for me and won’t find me,’ and, ‘You can’t go where I’m going’?”
Jn 7:30-36
37 On the last day of the festival, the main day, Jesus stood and shouted, “If anybody’s thirsty, come to me and drink. 38 Everyone that believes in me, like the scripture has said, will have streams of living water flowing from within him.” 39 (He said that about the Spirit the ones who believed in him would receive. The Spirit hadn’t come yet because Jesus hadn’t been glorified.)
40 Some in the crowd said, “This really is ‘the prophet’”; some said, “He’s ‘the Messiah.’” 41 Others said, “The Messiah’s not supposed to come from Galilee, is he? 42 Doesn’t scripture say he descends from David and comes from Bethlehem, where David lived?” 43 So a difference of opinion about him arose in the crowd. 44 Some wanted to arrest him, but nobody laid a hand on him.
45 The officers came back to the chief priests and Pharisees, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
46 The officers answered, “Nobody’s ever spoken like that.”
47 The Pharisees answered them, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? 48 None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? 49 This crowd that doesn’t know the Law is accursed.”
50 Nicodemus saidp to them—the one who came to him at first, 51 “It’s not legal, is it, to convict someone without a hearing?”
52 They answered him, “You’re not from Galilee, too, are you? Search the Scriptures and see that no prophet is supposed to arise from Galilee.” [[ 53 Each one went home.]]ms
Jn 7:37-53