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          DASV: John 7    

1 After this Jesus traveled in Galilee, for he refused to
travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.
2 Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.
3 So his brothers said to him, "Leave here, and go into Judea,
so that your disciples may also see the works which you are
doing.
4 For no one who wants to be famous does anything in secret.
If you do in fact do these things, show yourself to the world."
5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come; but your time
is always present.
7 The world cannot hate you; but it hates me because I provide
evidence against it, that its deeds are evil.
8 Go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because
my time has not yet fully come."
9 After saying this to them, he stayed in Galilee.

10 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he
went up also, not publicly but secretly.
11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and asked, "Where
is he?"
12 There were many rumors among the crowd about him. Some said,
"He is a good man;" others said, "Not, but he deceives the
crowds."
13 Yet no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews.

14 But during the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the
temple and began to teach.
15 The Jews therefore were surprised, saying, "How does this
man have such learning having never had any formal training?"
16 Jesus replied, "My teaching is not mine, but the one who
sent me.
17 If anyone desires to do God's will, he will know my teaching,
whether it is from God, or whether I speak only from myself.
18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who
seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true,
and there is no dishonesty in him.
19 Didn't Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the
law? Why do you want to kill me?"
20 The crowd answered, "You have a demon. Who wants to kill
you?"
21 Jesus replied, "I did one work, and all of you are astonished
because of it.
22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it was from Moses,
but from the patriarchs); yet you circumcise a man on the
Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the
law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because
I healed a man on the Sabbath?
24 Judge not according to mere appearance, but judge with right
judgment."

25 Some of those from Jerusalem said, "Is not this the one
they are wanting to kill?
26 But here he is speaking openly, and they say nothing
to him. Can it be that the leaders really know that this
is the Messiah?
27 But we know where this man is from, but when the Messiah
comes, no one will know where he is from."

28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple, while teaching, "You
both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come
on my own, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
30 They sought to nab him but no one laid a hand on him,
because his hour had not yet come.
31 But many of the crowd believed in him. They said, "When
the Messiah comes, will he do more signs than those which
this man has done?"
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things
about him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent
officers to arrest him.
33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you yet a little longer,
then I am returning to him who sent me.
34 You will seek me, but will not find me, and where I am, you
cannot come."
35 Then the Jews said among themselves, "Where will this man
go that we will not find him? Will he go to the diaspora
among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
36 What did he mean by saying, 'You will seek me, but will
not find me;' and 'Where I am, you cannot come'?"

37 Now on the last day, the great 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, 'from
within him will flow out rivers of living water.'"
39 But he said this about the Spirit, which they who believed
in him were about to receive. For the Spirit had not yet
been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

40 Then some of the crowd, when they heard these words, said,
"This is truly the prophet."
41 Others said, "This is the Messiah." But some said, "What,
will the Messiah come out of Galilee?
42 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah will come
from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the
village where David was from?"
43 So there arose a division among the crowd because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand
on him.

45 Then officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees,
and they asked them, "Why did you not bring him here?"
46 The officers answered, "No one has ever spoken like this."
47 Then Pharisees replied, "Are you also deceived?
48 Have any of the religious leaders or Pharisees believed
in him?
49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."
50 Nicodemus, who had come to Jesus before, being one of
them, said to them,
51 "Our law doesn't judge a man without first hearing from
him and knowing what he does, does it?"
52 They replied, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and
see, no prophet comes from Galilee."

53 [The earliest manuscripts we currently have do not have
John 7:53-8:11:
Then each of them went home.

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