John 7:7-42

⁷The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil.

⁸Go ye up to this feast: I go not yet to this feast, for my time is not yet full come.

⁹When he had said these words to them, he abode still in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brethren had gone up, then he went also to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

¹²And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, No; but he deceiveth the people.

¹³Yet, no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

¹⁵And the Jews marveled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

¹⁶Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷If any man will do his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from myself.

¹⁸He that speaketh from himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory 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 keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

²⁰The people answered and said, Thou hast a demon: who goeth about to kill thee?

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

²²Moses therefore gave to you circumcision, (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers) and ye on the sabbath circumcise a man.

²³If a man on the sabbath receiveth circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have restored a man to sound health on the sabbath?

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

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

²⁶But lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

²⁷But we know this man, whence he is: whereas when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

²⁸Then cried Jesus in the temple, as he taught, 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 know not.

²⁹But I know him; for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

³⁰Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

³¹And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?

³²The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him: and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.

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

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

³⁵Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go to the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

³⁶What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye will seek me, and will not find me : and where I am, thither ye cannot come?

³⁷In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirsteth, let him come to me, and drink.

³⁸He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹(But this he spoke of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given , because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

⁴⁰Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, In truth this is the Prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Will Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴²Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh from the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?