John 7:17-35

¹⁷If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or that I speak from myself.

¹⁸He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

¹⁹Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

²⁰The crowd answered and said, Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?

²¹Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder.

²²Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.

²³If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath?

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

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

²⁶and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?

²⁷But as to this man we know whence he is. Now as to the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.

²⁸Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and 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 do not know.

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

³⁰They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this man has done?

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.

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

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

³⁵The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?