John · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
John 7 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Και περιεπάτει ο Ιησούς μετά ταύτα εν τη Γαλιλαία· διότι δεν ήθελε να περιπατή εν τη Ιουδαία, επειδή οι Ιουδαίοι εζήτουν να θανατώσωσιν αυτόν.
1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Επλησίαζε δε η εορτή των Ιουδαίων, η σκηνοπηγία.
2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
3 Είπον λοιπόν προς αυτόν οι αδελφοί αυτού· Μετάβηθι εντεύθεν και ύπαγε εις την Ιουδαίαν, διά να ίδωσι και οι μαθηταί σου τα έργα σου, τα οποία κάμνεις·
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 διότι ουδείς πράττει τι κρυφίως και ζητεί αυτός να ήναι φανερός. Εάν πράττης ταύτα, φανέρωσον σεαυτόν εις τον κόσμον.
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 Διότι ουδέ οι αδελφοί αυτού επίστευον εις αυτόν.
5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
6 Λέγει λοιπόν προς αυτούς ο Ιησούς· Ο καιρός ο ιδικός μου δεν ήλθεν έτι, ο δε καιρός ο ιδικός σας είναι πάντοτε έτοιμος.
6 Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 Δεν δύναται ο κόσμος να μισή εσάς· εμέ όμως μισεί, διότι εγώ μαρτυρώ περί αυτού ότι τα έργα αυτού είναι πονηρά.
7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
8 Σεις ανάβητε εις την εορτήν ταύτην· εγώ δεν αναβαίνω έτι εις την εορτήν ταύτην, διότι ο καιρός μου δεν επληρώθη έτι.
8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
9 Και αφού είπε ταύτα προς αυτούς, έμεινεν εν τη Γαλιλαία.
9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
10 Αφού δε ανέβησαν οι αδελφοί αυτού, τότε και αυτός ανέβη εις την εορτήν, ουχί φανερώς αλλά κρυφίως πως.
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 Οι Ιουδαίοι λοιπόν εζήτουν αυτόν εν τη εορτή και έλεγον· Που είναι εκείνος;
11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
12 Και ήτο πολύς γογγυσμός περί αυτού μεταξύ των όχλων. Άλλοι μεν έλεγον ότι είναι καλός· άλλοι δε έλεγον, Ουχί, αλλά πλανά τον όχλον.
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 Ουδείς όμως ελάλει παρρησία περί αυτού διά τον φόβον των Ιουδαίων.
13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14 Και ενώ η εορτή ήτο ήδη περί τα μέσα, ανέβη ο Ιησούς εις το ιερόν και εδίδασκε.
14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
15 Και εθαύμαζον οι Ιουδαίοι, λέγοντες· Πως ούτος εξεύρει γράμματα, ενώ δεν έμαθεν;
15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
16 Απεκρίθη προς αυτούς ο Ιησούς και είπεν· Η ιδική μου διδαχή δεν είναι εμού, αλλά του πέμψαντός με.
16 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
17 Εάν τις θέλη να κάμη το θέλημα αυτού, θέλει γνωρίσει περί της διδαχής, αν ήναι εκ του Θεού ή αν εγώ λαλώ απ' εμαυτού.
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 Όστις λαλεί αφ' εαυτού, ζητεί την δόξαν την ιδικήν αυτού, όστις όμως ζητεί την δόξαν του πέμψαντος αυτόν, ούτος είναι αληθής, και αδικία εν αυτώ δεν υπάρχει.
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 Ο Μωϋσής δεν σας έδωκε τον νόμον; και ουδείς από σας εκπληροί τον νόμον. Διά τι ζητείτε να μη θανατώσητε;
19 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
20 Απεκρίθη ο όχλος και είπε· Δαιμόνιον έχεις· τις ζητεί να σε θανατώση;
20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
21 Απεκρίθη ο Ιησούς και είπε προς αυτούς· Εν έργον έκαμον, και πάντες θαυμάζετε.
21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.
22 Διά τούτο ο Μωϋσής σας έδωκε την περιτομήν, ουχί ότι είναι εκ του Μωϋσέως, αλλ' εκ των πατέρων, και εν σαββάτω περιτέμνετε άνθρωπον.
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 Εάν λαμβάνη άνθρωπος περιτομήν εν σαββάτω, διά να μη λυθή ο νόμος του Μωϋσέως, οργίζεσθε κατ' εμού διότι έκαμον ολόκληρον άνθρωπον υγιή εν σαββάτω;
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 Μη κρίνετε κατ' όψιν, αλλά την δικαίαν κρίσιν κρίνατε.
24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
25 Έλεγον λοιπόν τινές εκ των Ιεροσολυμιτών· Δεν είναι ούτος, τον οποίον ζητούσι να θανατώσωσι;
25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
26 Και ιδού, παρρησία λαλεί, και δεν λέγουσι προς αυτόν ουδέν. Μήπως τωόντι εγνώρισαν οι άρχοντες ότι ούτος είναι αληθώς ο Χριστός;
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 Αλλά τούτον εξεύρομεν πόθεν είναι· ο δε Χριστός όταν έρχεται, ουδείς γινώσκει πόθεν είναι.
27 However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
28 Εφώναξε λοιπόν ο Ιησούς, διδάσκων εν τω ιερώ, και είπε· Και εμέ εξεύρετε και πόθεν είμαι εξεύρετε· και απ' εμαυτού δεν ήλθον, αλλ' είναι αληθινός ο πέμψας με, τον οποίον σεις δεν εξεύρετε·
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 εγώ όμως εξεύρω αυτόν, διότι παρ' αυτού είμαι και εκείνος με απέστειλεν.
29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30 Εζήτουν λοιπόν να πιάσωσιν αυτόν, και ουδείς επέβαλεν επ' αυτόν την χείρα, διότι δεν είχεν ελθεί έτι η ώρα αυτού.
30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 Πολλοί δε εκ του όχλου επίστευσαν εις αυτόν και έλεγον ότι ο Χριστός όταν έλθη, μήπως θέλει κάμει θαύματα πλειότερα τούτων, τα οποία ούτος έκαμεν;
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 Ήκουσαν οι Φαρισαίοι τον όχλον ότι εγόγγυζε ταύτα περί αυτού, και απέστειλαν οι Φαρισαίοι και οι αρχιερείς υπηρέτας διά να πιάσωσιν αυτόν.
32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33 Είπε λοιπόν προς αυτούς ο Ιησούς· Έτι ολίγον καιρόν είμαι μεθ' υμών, και υπάγω προς τον πέμψαντά με.
33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
34 Θέλετε με ζητήσει και δεν θέλετε με ευρεί· και όπου είμαι εγώ, σεις δεν δύνασθε να έλθητε.
34 You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
35 Είπον λοιπόν οι Ιουδαίοι προς αλλήλους· Που μέλλει ούτος να υπάγη, ώστε ημείς δεν θέλομεν ευρεί αυτόν; Μήπως μέλλει να υπάγη εις τους διεσπαρμένους μεταξύ των Ελλήνων και να διδάσκη τους Έλληνας;
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 Τις είναι ούτος ο λόγος τον οποίον είπε, Θέλετε με ζητήσει και δεν θέλετε με ευρεί, και, όπου είμαι εγώ, σεις δεν δύνασθε να έλθητε;
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 Κατά δε την τελευταίαν ημέραν την μεγάλην της εορτής ίστατο ο Ιησούς και έκραξε λέγων· Εάν τις διψά, ας έρχηται προς εμέ και ας πίνη.
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 Όστις πιστεύει εις εμέ, καθώς είπεν η γραφή, ποταμοί ύδατος ζώντος θέλουσι ρεύσει εκ της κοιλίας αυτού.
38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
39 Τούτο δε είπε περί του Πνεύματος, το οποίον έμελλον να λαμβάνωσιν οι πιστεύοντες εις αυτόν· διότι δεν ήτο έτι δεδομένον Πνεύμα Άγιον, επειδή ο Ιησούς έτι δεν εδοξάσθη.
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 Πολλοί λοιπόν εκ του όχλου ακούσαντες τον λόγον, έλεγον· Ούτος είναι αληθώς ο προφήτης.
40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
41 Άλλοι έλεγον· Ούτος είναι ο Χριστός. Άλλοι δε έλεγον· Μη γαρ εκ της Γαλιλαίας έρχεται ο Χριστός;
41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Δεν είπεν η γραφή ότι εκ του σπέρματος του Δαβίδ και από της κώμης Βηθλεέμ, όπου ήτο ο Δαβίδ, έρχεται ο Χριστός;
42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
43 Σχίσμα λοιπόν έγεινε μεταξύ του όχλου δι' αυτόν.
43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
44 Τινές δε εξ αυτών ήθελον να πιάσωσιν αυτόν, αλλ' ουδείς επέβαλεν επ' αυτόν τας χείρας.
44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 Ήλθον λοιπόν οι υπηρέται προς τους αρχιερείς και Φαρισαίους, και εκείνοι είπον προς αυτούς· Διά τι δεν εφέρετε αυτόν;
45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
46 Απεκρίθησαν οι υπηρέται· Ουδέποτε ελάλησεν άνθρωπος ούτω, καθώς ούτος ο άνθρωπος.
46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
47 Απεκρίθησαν λοιπόν προς αυτούς οι Φαρισαίοι· Μήπως και σεις επλανήθητε;
47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
48 Μήπως τις εκ των αρχόντων επίστευσεν εις αυτόν ή εκ των Φαρισαίων;
48 Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
49 Αλλ' ο όχλος ούτος, όστις δεν γνωρίζει τον νόμον, είναι επικατάρατοι.
49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
50 Λέγει ο Νικόδημος προς αυτούς, ο ελθών προς αυτόν διά νυκτός, εις ων εξ αυτών.
50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
51 Μήπως ο νόμος ημών κρίνει τον άνθρωπον, εάν δεν ακούση παρ' αυτού πρότερον και μάθη τι πράττει;
51 “Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
52 Απεκρίθησαν και είπον προς αυτόν· Μήπως και συ εκ της Γαλιλαίας είσαι; ερεύνησον και ίδε ότι προφήτης εκ της Γαλιλαίας δεν ηγέρθη.
52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
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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.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
In this chapter of the Gospel, brethren, our Lord Jesus Christ has most especially commended Himself to our faith in respect of His humanity.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Nothing is worse than envy and malice; through these death entered into the world. For when the devil saw man honored, he endured not his prosperity, but used every means to destroy him. ( Wisd. ii. 24.) And from the same root one may everywhere see this same fruit produced.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
This is also the reason why, when men were often desirous to take Him, it is said, "No man laid hands upon Him, for the hour of His being taken was not yet come;" nor the time of His passion, which had been foreknown by the Father; as also says the prophet Habakkuk, "By this Thou shalt be known when …
For till then "the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified." And the prophet cries out, How long will ye be slow of heart?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)