Thematic Bible
John 7:1 (show verse)
After this, Jesus walked [from place to place] in Galilee, for He would not walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.
John 7:2 (show verse)
Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) was approaching.
John 7:3 (show verse)
So His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do.
John 7:4 (show verse)
No one does anything in secret when he wants to be known publicly. If You [must] do these things, show Yourself openly to the world and make Yourself known!”
John 7:5 (show verse)
For not even His brothers believed in Him.
John 7:6 (show verse)
So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you.
John 7:7 (show verse)
John 7:8 (show verse)
John 7:9 (show verse)
Having said these things to them, He stayed behind in Galilee.
John 7:10 (show verse)
But [afterward], when His brothers had gone up to the feast, He went up too, not publicly [with a caravan], but quietly [because He did not want to be noticed].
John 7:11 (show verse)
So the Jews kept looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
John 7:12 (show verse)
There was a lot of whispered discussion and murmuring among the crowds about Him. Some were saying, “He is a good man”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He misleads the people [giving them false ideas].”
John 7:13 (show verse)
Yet no one was speaking out openly and freely about Him for fear of [the leaders of] the Jews.
John 7:14 (show verse)
When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple [court] and began to teach.
John 7:15 (show verse)
Then the Jews were perplexed. They said, “How did this man become learned [so versed in the Scriptures and theology] without formal training?”
John 7:16 (show verse)
Jesus answered them by saying, “My teaching is not My own, but His who sent Me.
John 7:17 (show verse)
John 7:18 (show verse)
John 7:19 (show verse)
John 7:20 (show verse)
The crowd answered, “You have a demon [You are out of Your mind]! Who wants to kill You?”
John 7:21 (show verse)
Jesus replied, “I did one work, and you are all astounded.
John 7:22 (show verse)
John 7:23 (show verse)
John 7:24 (show verse)
John 7:25 (show verse)
Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Is this not the Man they want to kill?
John 7:26 (show verse)
Look, He is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to Him! Is it possible that the rulers really know that this is the Christ?
John 7:27 (show verse)
But we know where this Man is from; whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
John 7:28 (show verse)
Then Jesus called out as He taught in the temple, “You know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come on my own initiative [as self-appointed], but He who sent Me is true, and Him you do not know.
John 7:29 (show verse)
John 7:30 (show verse)
So they were eager to arrest Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His time had not yet come.
John 7:31 (show verse)
But many from the crowd believed in Him. And they kept saying, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs and exhibit more proofs than this Man?”
John 7:32 (show verse)
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things [under their breath] about Him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent guards to arrest Him.
John 7:33 (show verse)
Therefore Jesus said, “For a little while longer I am [still] with you, and then I go to Him who sent Me.
John 7:34 (show verse)
John 7:35 (show verse)
Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does this Man intend to go that we will not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion [of Jews scattered and living] among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
John 7:36 (show verse)
What does this statement of His mean, ‘You will look for Me, and will not [be able to] find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”
John 7:37 (show verse)
Now on the last and most important day of the feast, Jesus stood and called out [in a loud voice], “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink!
John 7:38 (show verse)
John 7:39 (show verse)
But He was speaking of the [Holy] Spirit, whom those who believed in Him [as Savior] were to receive afterward. The Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified (raised to honor).
John 7:40 (show verse)
Listening to these words, some of the people said, “This is certainly the Prophet!”
John 7:41 (show verse)
Others said, “This is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)!” But others said, “Surely the Christ is not going to come out of Galilee, is He?
John 7:42 (show verse)
Does the Scripture not say that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
John 7:43 (show verse)
So the crowd was divided because of Him.
John 7:44 (show verse)
Some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
John 7:45 (show verse)
Then the guards went [back] to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring Him [here with you]?”
John 7:46 (show verse)
The guards replied, “Never [at any time] has a man talked the way this Man talks!”
John 7:47 (show verse)
Then the Pharisees said to them, “Have you also been deluded and swept off your feet?
John 7:48 (show verse)
Has any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
John 7:49 (show verse)
But this [ignorant, contemptible] crowd that does not know the Law is accursed and doomed!”
John 7:50 (show verse)
Nicodemus (the one who came to Jesus before and was one of them) asked,
John 7:51 (show verse)
“Does our Law convict someone without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is [accused of] doing?”
John 7:52 (show verse)
They responded, “Are you also from Galilee? Search [and read the Scriptures], and see [for yourself] that no prophet comes from Galilee!”