John 7:7-33
English Standard Version
Chapter 7
7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come." 9After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
10But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.
11The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"
12And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, he is leading the people astray."
13Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
14About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
15The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?"
16So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
17If anyone 's will is to do God 's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
18The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"
20The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"
21Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel at it.
22Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man 's whole body well?
24Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
25Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?
26And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
27But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from."
28So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
29I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."
30So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, "When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"
