John 7:28-53

28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple, ¹teaching and saying, "²You both know Me and know where I am from; and ³I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

29 "⁴I know Him, because ⁵I am from Him, and ⁶He sent Me."

30 So they ⁷were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His ⁸hour had not yet come.

31 But ⁹many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, "¹⁰When the Christ comes, He will not perform more ¹¹signs than those which this man has, will He?"

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent ¹²officers to ¹³seize Him.

33 Therefore Jesus said, "¹⁴For a little while longer I am with you, then ¹⁵I go to Him who sent Me.

34 "¹⁶You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot * come."

35 ¹⁷The Jews then said to one another, "¹⁸Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to ¹⁹the Dispersion among ²⁰the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

36 "What is this statement that He said, '²¹You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot * come '?"

37 Now on ²²the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "²³If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

38 "He who believes in Me, ²⁴as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of ²⁵living water.' "

39 But this He spoke ²⁶of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for ²⁷the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ²⁸glorified.

Division of People over Jesus

40 Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is ²⁹the Prophet."

41 Others were saying, "This is the Christ." Still others were saying, "³⁰Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

42 "Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from ³¹the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

43 So ³²a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

44 ³³Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45 The ³⁴officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why * did you not bring Him?"

46 The ³⁵officers answered, "³⁶Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks."

47 The Pharisees then answered them, "³⁷You have not also been led astray, have you?

48 "³⁸No one of ³⁹the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

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

50 ⁴⁰Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them,

51 "⁴¹Our Law does not judge a man unless * it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?"

52 They answered him, "⁴²You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee."

53 [Everyone went to his home.

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Cross References 42

1. John 7:14
2. John 6:42; John 7:14; John 9:29
3. John 8:42
4. Matthew 11:27; John 8:55; John 17:25
5. John 6:46
6. John 3:17
7. Matthew 21:46; John 7:32, 44; John 10:39
8. John 7:6; John 8:20
9. John 2:23; John 8:30; John 10:42; John 11:45; John 12:11, 42
10. John 7:26
11. John 2:11
12. Matthew 26:58; John 7:45
13. Matthew 12:14
14. John 12:35; John 13:33; John 14:19; John 16:16-19
15. John 14:12, 28; John 16:5, 10, 17, 28; John 20:17
16. John 7:36; John 8:21; John 13:33
17. John 7:1
18. John 8:22
19. Psalms 147:2; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 56:8; Zephaniah 3:10; James 1:1; 1 Peter 1:1
20. John 12:20; Acts 14:1; Acts 17:4; Acts 18:4; Romans 1:16
21. John 7:34; John 8:21; John 13:33
22. Leviticus 23:36; Numbers 29:35; Nehemiah 8:18
23. John 4:10, 14; John 6:35
24. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 55:1; Isaiah 58:11
25. John 4:10
26. Joel 2:28; John 1:33
27. John 20:22; Acts 1:4; Acts 2:4, 33; Acts 19:2
28. John 12:16, 23; John 13:31; John 16:14; John 17:1
29. Matthew 21:11; John 1:21
30. John 1:46; John 7:52
31. Psalms 89:4; Micah 5:2; Matthew 1:1; Matthew 2:5; Luke 2:4f
32. John 9:16; John 10:19
33. John 7:30
34. John 7:32
35. John 7:32
36. Matthew 7:28
37. John 7:12
38. John 12:42
39. Luke 23:13; John 7:26
40. John 3:1; John 19:39
41. Exodus 23:1; Deuteronomy 17:6; Deuteronomy 19:15; Proverbs 18:13; Acts 23:3
42. John 1:46; John 7:41

Footnotes 8

[a]. I.e. the Messiah
[b]. Or "attesting miracles"
[c]. Vv 37-38 may also be read: "If anyone is thirsty,...let him come..., he who believes in me as..."
[d]. Or "let him keep coming to Me and let him keep drinking"
[e]. Lit "out of his belly"
[f]. I.e. the Messiah
[g]. I.e. the Messiah
[h]. Later mss add the story of the adulterous woman, numbering it as John 7:53-8:11

John 7:28-53

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Division of People over Jesus

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