7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not

walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

7:2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.

7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go

into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou

doest.

7:4 For [there is] no man [that] doeth any thing in secret, and

he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things,

shew thyself to the world.

7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

7:6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your

time is alway ready.

7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I

testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

7:8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast:

for my time is not yet full come.

7:9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode [still] in

Galilee.

7:10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up

unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

7:11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is

he?

7:12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning

him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he

deceiveth the people.

7:13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

7:14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the

temple, and taught.

7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man

letters, having never learned?

7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but

his that sent me.

7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,

whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself.

7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he

that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no

unrighteousness is in him.

7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you

keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

7:20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth

about to kill thee?

7:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work,

and ye all marvel.

7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it

is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day

circumcise a man.

7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the

law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I

have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous

judgment.

7:25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom

they seek to kill?

7:26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him.

Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

7:27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ

cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

7:28 Then 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.

7:29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

7:30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him,

because his hour was not yet come.

7:31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When

Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this

[man] hath done?

7:32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things

concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent

officers to take him.

7:33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you,

 and [then] I go unto him that sent me.

7:34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find [me]: and where I am,

[thither] ye cannot come.

7:35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go,

that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among

the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

7:36 What [manner of] saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek

me, and shall not find [me]: and where I am, [thither] ye cannot

come?

7:37 In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood

and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and

drink.

7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of

his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe

on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given];

because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying,

said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.

7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall

Christ come out of Galilee?

7:42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed

of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

7:43 So there was a division among the people because of him.

7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid

hands on him.

7:45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees;

and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?

7:46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

7:47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?

7:48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

7:49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

7:50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night,

being one of them,)

7:51 Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know

what he doeth?

7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee?

Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

7:53 And every man went unto his own house.

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