JOHN 7:17-34

¹⁷If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself.

¹⁸He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

²⁰The multitude answered, Thou hast a devil: who seeketh to kill thee?

²¹Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel.

²²For this cause hath Moses given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

²³If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?

²⁴Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

²⁵Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?

²⁷Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.

²⁸Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

²⁹I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.

³⁰They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man hath done?

³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.

³³Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me.

³⁴Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come.