John - Chapter 7

Passage

After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jewish feast of tabernacles was at hand. And his brethren said to him: Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works which you do. For no one does anything in secret if he himself wants to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world. For neither did his brethren believe in him. Then Jesus said to them: My time has not yet come; but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you: but it hates me, because I give testimony of it, that its works are evil. You go up to this festival day: but I am not going up to this festival day, because my time is not yet fulfilled. When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee. But after his brethren had gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. The Jews therefore were looking for him on the festival day and said: Where is he? And there was much murmuring among the crowd about him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he leads the people astray. Yet no one spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews. Now about the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. And the Jews wondered, saying: How does this man know letters, having never studied? Jesus answered them and said: My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone will do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is from God, or whether I speak of myself. He who speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me? The crowd answered and said: You have a devil. Who is seeking to kill you? Jesus answered and said to them: I have done one work: and you all wonder. Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man. If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath day, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day? Do not judge according to appearance: but judge with just judgment. Some therefore of the people of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? And behold, he speaks openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers truly come to know that this is the Christ? But we know where this man is from: but when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know where I am from. And I have not come of myself: but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know. I know him, because I am from him: and he has sent me. They tried therefore to seize him: and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come. But many of the people believed in him and said: When the Christ comes, will he do more miracles than this man does? The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things about him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent officers to seize him. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him who sent me. You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, there you cannot come. The Jews therefore said among themselves: Where will he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to those scattered among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles? What is this saying that he has said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come? And on the last and great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture says: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Now this he said of the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Of that crowd therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed. Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Does the Christ come out of Galilee? Does not the scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the town where David was? So there arose a division among the people because of him. And some of them wanted to seize him: but no one laid hands upon him. The officers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? The officers answered: Never did any man speak like this man. The Pharisees therefore answered them: Have you also been led astray? Has any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed. Nicodemus said to them (he who came to him by night, who was one of them): Does our law judge any man unless it first hears him and knows what he does? They answered and said to him: Are you also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see that no prophet rises out of Galilee. And everyone returned to his own house.