The Gospel of
John Chapter 7
(Today's
English King James)
7:1
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he
would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to
kill him.
7:2
Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
7:3
His brothers therefore said to him, Depart from here,
and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see
the works that you do.
7:4
For there is no man that does any thing in secret, and
he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these
things, show yourself to the world.
7:5
For neither did his brothers believe in him.
7:6
Then Jesus said to them, My time is not yet come: but
your time is always ready.
7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I
testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
7:8
Go you up to this feast: I go not up yet to this
feast: for my time is not yet full come.
7:9
When he had said these words to them, he stayed still
in Galilee.
7:10
But when his brothers were gone up, then went he also
up to 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, No; but he deceives the people.
7:13
However, no man spoke openly of him for fear of the
Jews.
7:14
Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into
the temple, and taught.
7:15
And the Jews marveled, saying, How knows 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 speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he
that seeks 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
keeps the law? Why
go you about to kill me?
7:20
The people answered and said, You have a demon: who
goes about to kill you?
7:21
Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work,
and you all marvel.
7:22
Moses therefore gave to you circumcision; (not because
it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and you 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 you angry
at me, because I have made a man completely 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, see, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to
him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very
Christ?
7:27
However, we know this man from where he is: but when
Christ comes, no man knows from where he is.
7:28
Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying,
You both know me, and you know from where I am: and I
am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true,
whom you know not.
7:29
But I know him: for I am from him, and he has 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 comes, will he do more miracles than these
which this man has 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 to them, Yet a little while am I with
you, and then I go to him that sent me.
7:34
You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I
am, there you cannot come.
7:35
Then said the Jews among themselves, Where will he go,
that we shall not find him? will he go to the
dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
7:36
What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall
seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there
you 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 to me, and drink.
7:38
He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out
of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
7:39
(But this spoke 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
Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes 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 to them, Why have you not
brought him?
7:46
The officers answered, Never man spoke like this man.
7:47
Then answered them the Pharisees, Are you also
deceived?
7:48
Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on
him?
7:49
But this people who knows not the law are cursed.
7:50
Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to Jesus by
night, being one of them,)
7:51
Does our law judge any man, before it hear him, and
know what he does?
7:52
They answered and said to him, Are you also of
Galilee? Search,
and look: for out of Galilee rises no prophet.
7:53
And every man went to his own house.