John 7:8-41

⁸Go ye up to this feast day, but I shall not go up to this feast day, for my time is not yet fulfilled or full-filled.

⁹When he had said these things, he dwelt in Galilee.

¹⁰And after that his brethren were gone up, then he went up to the feast day, not openly, but as in private.

¹¹Therefore the Jews sought him in the feast day, and said, Where is he?

¹²And much grutching was of him among the people. For some said, That he is good; and others said, Nay, but he deceiveth the people;

¹³nevertheless no man spake openly of him, for dread of the Jews.

¹⁴But when the middle feast day came, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

¹⁵And the Jews wondered, and said, How knoweth this man letters, since he hath not learned?

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

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

¹⁸He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, is soothfast, and unrightwiseness is not in him.

¹⁹Whether Moses gave not to you a law, and none of you doeth or keep-eth the law? What seek ye to slay me?

²⁰And the people answered, and said, Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to slay thee?

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

²²Therefore Moses gave to you circumcision; not for it is of Moses, but of the fathers; and in the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

²³If a man take circumcision in the sabbath, that the law of Moses be not broken, have ye indignation, or wrath, to me, for I made all a man whole in the sabbath?

²⁴Do not ye deem after the face, but deem ye a rightful doom.

²⁵Therefore some of Jerusalem said, Whether this is not he, whom the Jews seek to slay?

²⁶and lo! he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Whether the princes know verily that this is Christ?

²⁷But we know this man, of whence he is; but when Christ shall come, no man knoweth of whence he is.

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

²⁹I know him, and if I say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar; but I know him, for of him I am, and he sent me.

³⁰Therefore they sought to take him, and no man set on him hands, for his hour came not yet.

³¹And many of the people believed in him, and said, When Christ shall come, whether he shall do more tokens than those that this doeth?

³²The Pharisees heard the people musing of him, these things; and the princes and the Pharisees sent min-isters, to take him.

³³Therefore Jesus said to them, Yet a little time I am with you, and I go to the Father, that sent me.

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

³⁵Therefore the Jews said to them-selves, Whither shall this go, for we shall not find him? whether he will go into the scattering of heathen men, and will teach the heathen?

³⁶What is this word, which he said, Ye shall seek me, and ye shall not find me; and where I am, ye may not come?

³⁷But in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood, and cried, and said, If any man thirsteth, come he to me, and drink.

³⁸He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Floods of quick water shall flow out of his womb.

³⁹But he said this thing of the Spirit or of the Holy Ghost, whom men that believed in him should take; for the Spirit was not yet given, for Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Therefore of that company, when they had heard these words of him, they said, This is verily a prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is Christ. But some said, Whether Christ cometh from Galilee?