New Testament · John

John 7

Yeshua Teaches at the Feast

1After these things Yeshua was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. 2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near. 3Therefore His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing. 4For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks to be known with publicly^a; if You do these things, show Yourself to the world." 5For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

6So Yeshua said to them, "My appointed time is not yet here, but your appointed time is always opportune.^b 7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil. 8Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not yet going up to this feast because My appointed time has not yet fully come."

9Having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee. 10But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly but as if in secret.

11So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were saying, "Where is He?"

12There was much grumbling among the crowds concerning Him; some were saying, "He is a good man"; others were saying, "No, on the contrary, He leads the people astray."

13Yet no one was speaking with openness of Him for fear of the Jews.

14But when it was now the middle of the feast Yeshua went up into the temple and began to teach. 15The Jews then were astonished, saying, "How has this man become learned, having never been educated?"

16So Yeshua answered them and said, "My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. 17If anyone is willing to do His will^c, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. 18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true^d, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. 19Did not Moses give you the law^e, and yet none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?"

20The crowd answered, "You have an evil spirit! Who seeks to kill You?"^f

21Yeshua answered and said to them, "I did one deed and you all marvel. 22For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the sabbaton you circumcise a man.^g 23If a man receives circumcision on the sabbaton so that the law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the sabbaton? 24Do not judge^h according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgmentⁱ."

Is Yeshua the Messiah?

25So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, "Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill? 26Look, He is speaking with publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him; the rulers do not really know that this is the Messiah, do they? 27However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Messiah may come, no one knows where He is from."

28Then Yeshua cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true^j, whom you do not know. 29I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me."

30So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His that hour had not yet come.^k 31But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, "When the Messiah comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?"

32The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize Him. 33Therefore Yeshua said, "For a little while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me. 34You will seek Me and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come."

35The Jews then said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is He? 36What is this word^l that He said, 'You will seek Me and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"

Living Water

37Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Yeshua stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38He who believes in Me, as the scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"^m 39But this He spoke of the spiritⁿ, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the holy^o spirit was not yet given, because Yeshua was not yet glorified.

Division over Yeshua

40Many of the crowd therefore, when they heard the word, were saying, "This certainly is the Prophet."

41Others were saying, "This is the Messiah." Still others were saying, "Surely the Messiah is not going to come from Galilee, is He? 42Has not the scripture said that the Messiah comes from the descendants of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

43So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him. 44Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

The Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders

45The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"

46The officers answered, "Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks."

47The Pharisees then answered them, "You have not also been led astray, have you? 48No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he? 49But this crowd which does not know the law is accursed."

50Nicodemus (he who came to Yeshua by night^p, being one of them) said to them, 51"Our law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?"

52They answered and said to him, "You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee."

53Everyone went to his home.