John 7
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And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because
the Jews sought to kill him.
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Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.
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His brethren therefore said to him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that your disciples
also may behold your works which you do.
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For no man does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do
these things, manifest yourself to the world.
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For even his brethren did not believe on him.
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Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
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The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works
are evil.
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Go you up to the feast: I go not up to this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.
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And having said these things to them, he abode [still] in Galilee.
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But when his brethren were gone up to the feast, then went he also up, not publicly,
but as it were in secret.
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The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
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And 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.
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Yet no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
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But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
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The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How knows this man letters, having never learned?
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Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent
me.
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If any man wills to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God,
or [whether] I speak from myself.
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He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory: but he who seeks the glory of him
whom sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
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Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you does the law? Why seek you to
kill me?
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The multitude answered, You have a demon: who seeks to kill you?
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Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and you all marvel because thereof.
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Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and
on the sabbath you circumcise a man.
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If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken;
are you wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?
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Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
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And behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers
indeed know that this is the Christ?
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Nevertheless we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ comes, no one knows
whence he is.
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Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, You both know me, and know
whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you know
not.
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I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
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They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour
was not yet come.
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But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come,
will he do more signs than those which this man has done?
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The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief
priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.
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Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go to him whom sent
me.
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You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, you cannot come.
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The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where will this man go that we shall not
find him? will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
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What is this word that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where
I am, you cannot come?
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Now on the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying,
If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.
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He who believes on me, as the scripture has said, from within him shall flow rivers
of living water.
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But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive:
for the Spirit was not yet [given]; because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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[Some] of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a
truth the prophet.
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Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, does the Christ come out of
Galilee?
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Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem,
the village where David was?
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So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
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And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them,
Why did you not bring him?
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The officers answered, Never man so spoke.
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The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are you also led astray?
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Has any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?
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But this multitude that knows not the law are accursed.
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Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him before, being one of them),
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Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he does?
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They answered and said to him, Art you also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of
Galilee arises no prophet.
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And they went every man to his own house: