7:1  After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

7:2  Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

7:3  His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

7:4  For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

7:5  For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

7:6  Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

7:7  The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

7:8  You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

7:9  Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

7:10  But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

7:11  The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

7:12  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."

7:13  Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

7:14  But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

7:15  The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

7:16  Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

7:17  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.

7:18  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 no unrighteousness is in him.

7:19  Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

7:20  The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

7:21  Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

7:22  Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

7:23  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 every bit whole on the Sabbath?

7:24  Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

7:25  Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?

7:26  Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

7:27  However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

7:28  Jesus therefore cried 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 don't know.

7:29  I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

7:30  They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

7:31  But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

7:32  The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

7:33  Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

7:34  You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

7:35  The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

7:36  What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"

7:37  Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

7:38  He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

7:39  But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

7:40  Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."

7:41  Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

7:42  Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

7:43  So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

7:44  Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

7:45  The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

7:46  The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

7:47  The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

7:48  Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

7:49  But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

7:50  Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

7:51  "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

7:52  They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

7:53  Everyone went to his own house,