John 7

1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.Cross-references: Matt 10:23 · Matt 21:38 · Luke 13:31 · John 1:19 · John 4:3 · John 4:54 · +8 more

2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.Cross-references: Ex 23:16 · Lev 23:34 · Num 29:12 · Deut 16:13 · 1Ki 8:2 · 1Ki 8:65 · +4 more

3His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.Cross-references: Gen 37:5 · Gen 37:20 · 1Sam 17:28 · Jer 12:6 · Matt 12:46 · Matt 22:16 · +5 more

4For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:13 · Prov 18:1 · Matt 4:6 · Matt 6:1 · Matt 6:5 · Matt 6:16 · +4 more

5For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.Cross-references: Mic 7:5 · Mark 3:21 · John 1:11 · John 7:3 · John 7:10

6Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.Cross-references: Ps 102:13 · Eccl 3:1 · Matt 26:18 · John 2:4 · John 7:8 · John 7:30 · +4 more

7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:20 · 1Ki 22:8 · Prov 8:36 · Prov 9:7 · Prov 15:12 · Isa 29:21 · +19 more

8You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”Cross-references: John 7:6 · John 7:30 · John 8:20 · John 8:30 · John 11:6 · 1Cor 2:15

9Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.Cross-references: Ps 26:8 · Ps 40:8 · Isa 42:2 · Amos 5:13 · Matt 3:15 · Matt 10:16 · +4 more

11The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”Cross-references: John 11:56

12There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”Cross-references: Matt 10:25 · Matt 16:13 · Matt 21:46 · Matt 27:63 · Luke 6:45 · Luke 7:16 · +14 more

13Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.Cross-references: Prov 29:25 · John 3:2 · John 9:22 · John 9:34 · John 12:42 · John 19:38 · +4 more

14But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.Cross-references: Num 29:12 · Num 29:17 · Num 29:20 · Num 29:23 · Hag 2:7 · Mal 3:1 · +9 more

15The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”Cross-references: Amos 7:14 · Matt 7:28 · Matt 13:54 · Matt 22:22 · Matt 22:33 · Mark 6:2 · +7 more

16Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.Cross-references: John 3:11 · John 3:31 · John 5:23 · John 5:30 · John 6:38 · John 6:44 · +7 more

17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.Cross-references: Ps 25:8 · Ps 25:12 · Ps 25:14 · Ps 119:10 · Ps 119:101 · Isa 35:8 · +15 more

18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.Cross-references: Ex 32:10 · Num 11:29 · Prov 25:27 · Matt 6:9 · John 3:26 · John 5:41 · +11 more

19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”Cross-references: Ex 24:2 · Deut 1:17 · Deut 33:4 · Ps 2:1 · Matt 12:14 · Matt 21:38 · +20 more

20The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”Cross-references: Matt 10:25 · Matt 11:18 · Matt 12:24 · Mark 3:21 · Mark 3:30 · John 8:48 · +3 more

21Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.Cross-references: John 5:2 · John 7:23

22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.Cross-references: Gen 17:10 · Lev 12:3 · Rom 4:9 · Gal 3:17

23If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?Cross-references: Matt 12:2 · Matt 12:5 · John 5:8 · John 5:14

24Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”Cross-references: Lev 19:15 · Deut 1:16 · Deut 16:18 · Ps 58:1 · Ps 82:2 · Ps 94:20 · +8 more

25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?Cross-references: John 7:10

26Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?Cross-references: Ps 40:9 · Ps 71:15 · Prov 28:1 · Isa 42:4 · Isa 50:7 · Matt 22:16 · +9 more

27However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”Cross-references: Isa 11:1 · Isa 53:8 · Jer 23:5 · Jer 30:21 · Mic 5:2 · Matt 2:5 · +8 more

28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:12 · Ps 9:10 · Prov 2:3 · Jer 9:6 · Jer 31:34 · Hos 4:1 · +37 more

29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”Cross-references: Matt 11:27 · John 1:18 · John 3:16 · John 6:46 · John 8:55 · John 10:15 · +7 more

30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.Cross-references: Ps 76:10 · Isa 46:10 · Matt 21:46 · Mark 11:18 · Luke 13:32 · Luke 19:47 · +15 more

31But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”Cross-references: Matt 11:3 · Matt 12:23 · Luke 8:13 · John 2:11 · John 2:23 · John 3:2 · +11 more

32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.Cross-references: Matt 12:23 · Matt 23:13 · Luke 22:52 · John 7:45 · John 11:47 · John 12:19 · +2 more

33Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.Cross-references: Mark 16:19 · John 12:35 · John 13:1 · John 13:3 · John 13:33 · John 14:19 · +6 more

34You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”Cross-references: Prov 1:24 · Hos 5:6 · Matt 23:39 · Luke 13:24 · Luke 13:34 · Luke 17:22 · +5 more

35The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?Cross-references: Ps 67:1 · Ps 98:2 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 27:12 · Isa 49:6 · +15 more

36What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”Cross-references: John 3:4 · John 3:9 · John 6:41 · John 6:52 · John 6:60 · John 7:34 · +3 more

37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!Cross-references: Lev 23:36 · Lev 23:39 · Num 29:35 · 1Ki 8:65 · Neh 8:18 · Ps 36:8 · +40 more

38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”Cross-references: Deut 18:15 · Job 32:18 · Prov 10:11 · Prov 18:4 · Isa 12:3 · Isa 44:3 · +8 more

39But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.Cross-references: Deut 18:15 · Ps 68:18 · Prov 1:23 · Isa 12:3 · Isa 32:15 · Isa 44:3 · +32 more

40Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”Cross-references: Matt 21:11 · John 1:21 · John 6:14

41Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?Cross-references: Matt 16:14 · John 1:41 · John 1:46 · John 1:49 · John 4:25 · John 4:29 · +4 more

42Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”Cross-references: 1Sam 16:1 · 1Sam 16:4 · 1Sam 16:11 · 1Sam 16:18 · 1Sam 17:58 · Ps 89:4 · +9 more

43So a division arose in the multitude because of him.Cross-references: Matt 10:35 · Luke 12:51 · John 7:12 · John 9:16 · John 10:19 · Acts 14:4 · +1 more

44Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.Cross-references: John 7:30 · John 8:20 · John 18:5 · Acts 18:10 · Acts 23:11 · Acts 27:23

45The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”Cross-references: John 7:32 · Acts 5:21

46The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”Cross-references: Matt 7:28 · Luke 4:22 · John 7:26

47The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?Cross-references: 2Ki 18:29 · 2Ki 18:32 · 2Chr 32:15 · Matt 27:63 · John 7:12 · John 9:27 · +1 more

48Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?Cross-references: Jer 5:4 · Matt 11:25 · John 7:26 · John 7:50 · John 12:42 · Acts 6:7 · +3 more

49But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”Cross-references: Isa 5:21 · Isa 28:14 · Isa 29:14 · Isa 65:5 · John 9:34 · John 9:40 · +3 more

50Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,Cross-references: John 3:1 · John 19:39

51“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”Cross-references: Deut 1:17 · Deut 17:6 · Deut 17:8 · Deut 19:15 · Prov 18:13 · Acts 23:3

52They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”Cross-references: Gen 19:9 · Ex 2:14 · 1Ki 22:24 · Prov 9:7 · Isa 9:1 · Matt 4:15 · +3 more

53Everyone went to his own house,Cross-references: Job 5:12 · Ps 33:10 · Ps 76:5 · Ps 76:10