Chapter 7

  After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.  

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  Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.  

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  His brothers therefore said to him, 'Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.  

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  For no man does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.'  

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  For even his brothers didn't believe in him.  

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  Jesus therefore said to them, 'My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.  

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  The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.  

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  You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.'  

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

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

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  The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, 'Where is he?'  

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  There 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.'  

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  Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.  

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  But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.  

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  The Jews therefore marveled, saying, 'How does this man know letters, having never been educated?'  

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  Jesus therefore answered them, 'My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.  

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  If anyone desires to do his will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I speak from myself.  

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  He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.  

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  Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?'  

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  The multitude answered, 'You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?'  

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  Jesus answered them, 'I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.  

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  Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.  

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  If 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 every bit whole on the Sabbath?  

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  Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.'  

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  Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, 'Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?  

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  Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?  

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  However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.'  

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  Jesus 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.  

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

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  They sought therefore to take him. No one laid a hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.  

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  But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, 'When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those which this man has done?'  

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  The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.  

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  Then Jesus said, 'Yet a little while, am I with you, then I go to him who sent me.  

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  You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come.'  

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  The 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?  

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  What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?''  

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  Now 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!  

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  He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.'  

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  But 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.  

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  Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, 'This is truly the prophet.'  

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  Others said, 'This is the Christ.' But some said, 'What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?  

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  Hasn't the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?'  

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  So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.  

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  Some of them would have taken him, but no one laid hands on him.  

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  The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, 'Why didn't you bring him?'  

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  The officers answered, 'No man ever spoke like this man!'  

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  The Pharisees therefore answered them, 'Are you also led astray?  

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  Has any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?  

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  But this cursed multitude doesn't know the law.'  

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  Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,  

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  'Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?'  

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  They answered him, 'Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.'  

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  Everyone went to his own house,  

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