John 7 Berean Standard Bible
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1 After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
3 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
3 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
4 For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
6 Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
8 Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
9 Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.
9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
10 But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.
10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
11 So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
12 Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”
12 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.”
13 Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14 About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
16 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
18 He 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.
19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
19 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
20 “You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
21 Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.
22 But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
23 If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
23 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 completely healthy on the Sabbath?
24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
26 Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
27 But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
27 However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
28 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.
29 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30 So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”
31 But 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?”
32 When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.
32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33 So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
34 You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
35 At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
35 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?
36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
36 What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”
37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
37 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!
38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
39 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.
40 On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
41 Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
43 So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.
43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.
44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”
45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
46 “Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.
46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
47 “Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.
47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
48 “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
48 Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
49 But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”
49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
51 “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
51 “Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
52 “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
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Nicodemus
A Pharisee and leader of the Jews who came to Jesus at night, later asked the council to hear Jesus before judging him, and brought myrrh and aloes of about seventy-five pounds…
Cited in the guide: John 3:1; John 7:50; John 19:39
Cross references (52)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 John 5:16–18; Matthew 21:38; John 4:3; John 7:19; Matthew 10:23
- 2 Zechariah 14:16–19; Deuteronomy 16:13–16; Leviticus 23:34–43; Exodus 23:16–17; Numbers 29:12–38
- 3 Matthew 12:46; John 7:5; 1 Samuel 17:28; Genesis 37:20; Luke 8:19
- 4 John 18:20; Proverbs 18:1–2; Matthew 23:5; Matthew 6:5; Luke 6:45
- 5 Mark 3:21; John 1:11–13; Micah 7:5–6; John 7:3; John 7:10
- 6 John 7:8; John 2:4; John 7:30; John 17:1; John 13:1
- 7 John 15:18–19; John 3:19; Galatians 4:16; Proverbs 9:7–8; James 4:4
- 8 John 7:6; John 8:20; 1 Corinthians 2:15–16; John 7:30
- 10 Amos 5:13; Matthew 10:16; Isaiah 42:2–3; Matthew 3:15; John 7:5
- 11 John 11:56
- 12 John 9:16; John 7:40–43; Acts 11:24; John 7:47; John 7:32
- 13 John 9:22; John 19:38; John 20:19; John 12:42–43; Proverbs 29:25
- 14 John 7:28; Luke 19:47; Haggai 2:7–9; John 8:2; John 18:20
- 15 Luke 4:22; Matthew 7:28–29; Matthew 13:54; Acts 26:24; Matthew 22:22
- 16 John 14:10; John 14:24; John 5:30; John 6:38–40; John 12:49–50
- 17 John 8:31–32; John 8:43; Jeremiah 31:33–34; John 8:47; Daniel 12:10
- 18 John 5:41; Philippians 2:3–5; 1 Corinthians 10:31–33; John 13:31–32; John 12:28
- 19 John 1:17; John 7:1; John 11:53; Matthew 12:14; Deuteronomy 1:17
- 20 John 10:20; John 8:48; Mark 3:21–22; John 8:52; Mark 3:30
- 21 John 5:2–11; John 7:23
- 22 Leviticus 12:3; Genesis 17:10–14; Romans 4:9–11; Galatians 3:17
- 23 John 5:14–16; Matthew 12:2; Matthew 12:5; John 5:8–9
- 24 Isaiah 11:3–4; James 2:9; Proverbs 17:15; John 8:15; Proverbs 24:23
- 25 John 7:10–11
- 26 2 Timothy 1:7–8; Ephesians 6:19–20; John 7:48; Psalm 40:9–10; John 9:22
- 27 Micah 5:2; John 7:41–42; John 9:29; John 6:42; Matthew 13:54–57
- 28 John 8:42; John 8:19; Jeremiah 9:6; John 12:49; John 5:43
- 29 John 8:55; Matthew 11:27; John 3:16–17; John 6:46; 1 John 4:9
- 30 John 10:39; John 8:20; John 7:6; John 7:32; Luke 13:32–33
- 31 John 12:42; Matthew 12:23; Acts 8:13; John 11:45; John 10:41–42
- 32 Acts 5:26; Matthew 12:23–24; Luke 22:52–53; John 18:3; John 12:19
- 33 John 13:33; John 16:5; Mark 16:19; John 17:11; John 14:19
- 34 John 13:33–36; Proverbs 1:24–31; Hosea 5:6; John 14:3; John 17:24
- 35 James 1:1; 1 Peter 1:1; Zephaniah 3:10; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 11:10
- 36 John 3:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; John 7:34; John 3:4; John 16:17–18
- 37 Isaiah 55:1; John 4:14; John 6:35; Isaiah 12:3; Revelation 22:17
- 38 John 4:14; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 58:11; Isaiah 12:3; John 4:10
- 39 Acts 2:17; Joel 2:28; John 14:16–17; Isaiah 32:15; John 16:7
- 40 Matthew 21:11; John 1:21; John 6:14
- 41 John 7:52; John 1:46; John 1:49; John 1:41; John 4:29
- 42 Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5; Jeremiah 23:5; Luke 2:4; Luke 2:11
- 43 John 9:16; John 10:19; Luke 12:51; John 7:12; Acts 23:7–10
- 44 John 7:30; Acts 23:11; John 8:20; Acts 27:23–25; John 18:5–6
- 45 John 7:32; Acts 5:21–27
- 46 Matthew 7:28–29; Luke 4:22; John 7:26
- 47 John 7:12; 2 Corinthians 6:8; Matthew 27:63; 2 Chronicles 32:15; 2 Kings 18:29
- 48 John 12:42; 1 Corinthians 1:20; John 7:26; 1 Corinthians 2:8; Acts 6:7
- 49 1 Corinthians 1:20–21; 1 Corinthians 3:18–20; James 3:13–18; John 9:34; John 9:40
- 50 John 19:39; John 3:1–2
- 51 Proverbs 18:13; Deuteronomy 1:17; Acts 23:3; Deuteronomy 19:15–19; Deuteronomy 17:8–11
- 52 John 7:41; John 1:46; Isaiah 9:1–2; Matthew 4:15–16; Proverbs 9:7–8
- 53 Psalm 33:10; Job 5:12–13; Psalm 76:5; Psalm 76:10
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Why does my Bible say something different?
- John 7:53–8:11: the woman taken in adultery
The story of the woman brought to Jesus, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone,” is missing from the earliest Greek manuscripts of John and wanders to other places in some later ones. Yet it was known in the early Church, is printed in the Patriarchal Text, and is read in Orthodox services. Most scholars think it is a genuine early tradition that was not originally part of John.
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I Purpose by the Lord's assistance to treat of this section of the Gospel which has just been read; nor is there a little difficulty here, lest the truth be endangered, and falsehood glory. Not that either the truth can perish, nor falsehood triumph.
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)