John 7:18-46

¹⁸The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

¹⁹Didn’t Moses give you the Law, yet none of you keeps the Law? Why are you trying to kill me?”

²⁰The people answered, “You have a demon. Who is trying to kill You?”

²¹Jesus answered, “I did one work, and you all marvel.

²²Moses gave you circumcision (not that it’s from Moses, but from the forefathers), and you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.

²³If a boy gets circumcised on the Sabbath, so that the Law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

²⁴Don’t judge by appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

²⁵Some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

²⁶Look! He is speaking boldly, and they say nothing to Him. The rulers haven’t really concluded that this is the Christ, have they?

²⁷Still, we know where this man is from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”

²⁸Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I’m from. I haven’t come of my own accord, but He who sent me is true, who you don’t know.

²⁹I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent me.”

³⁰Because of this, they were seeking to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him, because His time had not yet come.

³¹Many of the people believed in Him, saying, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than this man has done?”

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him.

³³Then Jesus told them, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to Him who sent me.

³⁴You will look for me, and not find me, and where I am, you can’t come.”

³⁵Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we won’t be able to find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

³⁶What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for me, and not find me, and where I am, you can’t come’?”

³⁷On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and declared loudly, “If anyone is thirsty, let that person come to me and drink.

³⁸Rivers of living water will flow from within whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said.”

³⁹He said this about the Spirit, who those believing in Him would receive. The Holy Spirit wasn’t yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

⁴⁰When they heard these words, many in the crowd were saying, “This is really the prophet.”

⁴¹Others were saying, “This is the Christ,” but some were saying, “Surely the Christ isn’t going to come from Galilee, is He?

⁴²Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”

⁴³So there was a division among the crowd because of Jesus.

⁴⁴Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

⁴⁵When the officers went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, they asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

⁴⁶The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”