Thematic Bible




John 7:1 (show verse)

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jewish leaders sought to kill him.

John 7:2 (show verse)

Now the Jewish festival, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.

John 7:3 (show verse)

His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

John 7:4 (show verse)

For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

John 7:5 (show verse)

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

John 7:6 (show verse)

Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

John 7:7 (show verse)

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

John 7:8 (show verse)

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

John 7:9 (show verse)

Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

John 7:10 (show verse)

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

John 7:11 (show verse)

The Jewish leaders therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

John 7:12 (show verse)

There was much murmuring among the crowds concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the crowd astray."

John 7:13 (show verse)

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

John 7:14 (show verse)

But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

John 7:15 (show verse)

The Jewish leaders therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

John 7:16 (show verse)

Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

John 7:17 (show verse)

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.

John 7:18 (show verse)

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.

John 7:19 (show verse)

Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

John 7:20 (show verse)

The crowd answered, "You have a demon. Who seeks to kill you?"

John 7:21 (show verse)

Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

John 7:22 (show verse)

Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

John 7:23 (show verse)

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?

John 7:24 (show verse)

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

John 7:25 (show verse)

Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

John 7:26 (show verse)

Look, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Messiah?

John 7:27 (show verse)

However we know where this man comes from, but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

John 7:28 (show verse)

Jesus therefore called 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 do not know.

John 7:29 (show verse)

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

John 7:30 (show verse)

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

John 7:31 (show verse)

But many in the crowd believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

John 7:32 (show verse)

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

John 7:33 (show verse)

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

John 7:34 (show verse)

You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come."

John 7:35 (show verse)

The Jewish leaders therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

John 7:36 (show verse)

What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"

John 7:37 (show verse)

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

John 7:38 (show verse)

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

John 7:39 (show verse)

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

John 7:40 (show verse)

Some of the crowd therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the Prophet."

John 7:41 (show verse)

Others said, "This is the Messiah." But some said, "What, does the Messiah come out of Galilee?

John 7:42 (show verse)

Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

John 7:43 (show verse)

So there arose a division in the crowd because of him.

John 7:44 (show verse)

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

John 7:45 (show verse)

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

John 7:46 (show verse)

The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man."

John 7:47 (show verse)

The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You are not also led astray, are you?

John 7:48 (show verse)

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

John 7:49 (show verse)

But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed."

John 7:50 (show verse)

Nicodemus (he who came to him before, being one of them) said to them,

John 7:51 (show verse)

"Does our Law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

John 7:52 (show verse)

They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

John 7:53 (show verse)

Everyone went to his own house,