John 7:14-39

14 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ¹into the temple and began teaching.

15 The Jews therefore ²marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, ^[a] when he has never studied? ”

16 So Jesus answered them, ³“My teaching is not mine, but his ⁴who sent me.

17 ⁵If anyone’s will is to do God’s^[b] will, ⁶he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ⁷am speaking on my own authority.

18 The one who speaks on his own authority ⁸seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

19 ⁹Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ¹⁰Why do you seek to kill me? ”

20 The crowd answered, ¹¹“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you? ”

21 Jesus answered them, “I did ¹²one work, and you all marvel at it.

22 ¹³Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ¹⁴from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

23 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ¹⁵are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?

24 ¹⁶Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment. ”

Can This Be the Christ?

25 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ¹⁷they seek to kill?

26 And here he is, ¹⁸speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ¹⁹the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

27 But ²⁰we know ²¹where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ²²no one will know where he comes from. ”

28 So Jesus proclaimed, ²³as he taught in the temple, ²⁴“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ²⁵I have not come of my own accord. ²⁶He who sent me is true, ²⁷and him you do not know.

29 ²⁸I know him, for I come ²⁹from him, and ³⁰he sent me. ”

30 ³¹So they were seeking to arrest him, but ³²no one laid a hand on him, ³³because his hour had not yet come.

31 Yet ³⁴many of the people believed in him. They said, ³⁵“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done? ”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd ³⁶muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ³⁷officers to arrest him.

33 Jesus then said, ³⁸“I will be with you a little longer, and then ³⁹I am going to him who sent me.

34 ⁴⁰You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come. ”

35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ⁴¹Does he intend to go to ⁴²the Dispersion among ⁴³the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What does he mean by saying, ⁴⁴‘You will seek me and you will not find me, ’and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’? ”

Rivers of Living Water

37 ⁴⁵On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ⁴⁶“If anyone thirsts, let him ⁴⁷come to me and drink.

38 Whoever believes in me, ⁴⁸as^[c] the Scripture has said, ⁴⁹‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ⁵⁰living water. ’”

39 Now ⁵¹this he said about the Spirit, ⁵²whom those who believed in him were to receive, ⁵³for as yet the Spirit had not been ⁵⁴given, ⁵⁵because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Cross References

• 1. 7:14 ver. 28
• 2. 7:15 [ver. 46; Luke 2:47; 4:22; Acts 4:13]
• 3. 7:16 ch. 8:28; 12:49; 14:10, 24; [ch. 3:34]
• 4. 7:16 See ch. 3:17
• 5. 7:17 [ch. 8:31, 32; 14:21, 23]
• 6. 7:17 [ch. 8:43; Ps. 25:9; Dan. 12:10; Phil. 3:15]
• 7. 7:17 See ch. 5:30
• 8. 7:18 ch. 5:41; 8:50
• 9. 7:19 ver. 23; See ch. 1:17
• 10. 7:19 ver. 1
• 11. 7:20 ch. 8:48, 52; 10:20; [Matt. 11:18; Mark 3:22; Luke 7:33]
• 12. 7:21 ver. 23; ch. 5:2-9
• 13. 7:22 Lev. 12:3
• 14. 7:22 Gen. 17:10
• 15. 7:23 ch. 5:16; See Matt. 12:2
• 16. 7:24 ch. 8:15; [Isa. 11:3; 2 Cor. 10:7]; See Deut. 1:16, 17
• 17. 7:25 ver. 1
• 18. 7:26 ch. 18:20
• 19. 7:26 ver. 48
• 20. 7:27 [ch. 6:42; 8:14, 19; 9:29]
• 21. 7:27 ch. 19:9
• 22. 7:27 [ver. 42]
• 23. 7:28 ver. 14
• 24. 7:28 [See ver. 27 above]
• 25. 7:28 ch. 8:42; [ch. 5:43]
• 26. 7:28 See ch. 8:26
• 27. 7:28 ch. 8:19; 15:21; [ch. 4:22; 8:55]
• 28. 7:29 ch. 8:55; See Matt. 11:27
• 29. 7:29 ch. 6:46; 9:16, 33; [ch. 1:14]
• 30. 7:29 See ch. 3:17
• 31. 7:30 ver. 44; ch. 10:39; [Matt. 21:46]
• 32. 7:30 ch. 8:20
• 33. 7:30 ver. 6
• 34. 7:31 ch. 8:30; 10:42; 11:45; 12:11; [ch. 2:23; 12:42; Matt. 21:11]
• 35. 7:31 Matt. 12:23
• 36. 7:32 ver. 12
• 37. 7:32 ver. 45, 46
• 38. 7:33 ch. 12:35; 13:33; 14:19; 16:16-19
• 39. 7:33 ch. 16:5
• 40. 7:34 ch. 8:21; 13:33
• 41. 7:35 [ch. 8:22]
• 42. 7:35 James 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1; [Isa. 11:12; Zeph. 3:10]
• 43. 7:35 ch. 12:20
• 44. 7:36 ver. 34
• 45. 7:37 Lev. 23:36; Num. 29:35; Neh. 8:18
• 46. 7:37 Isa. 55:1; See ch. 4:14
• 47. 7:37 See ch. 6:35
• 48. 7:38 [Isa. 12:3; Ezek. 47:1]
• 49. 7:38 ch. 4:14; [Prov. 18:4]
• 50. 7:38 See ch. 4:10
• 51. 7:39 Isa. 44:3; [1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:14]
• 52. 7:39 Joel 2:28; Acts 2:16-18; [ch. 1:33; 20:22; Luke 24:49]
• 53. 7:39 Acts 2:4, 33
• 54. 7:39 ch. 3:34; Luke 11:13
• 55. 7:39 ch. 14:16, 17; 16:7

Footnotes

• [a] 7:15 Or 'this man knows his letters'
• [b] 7:17 Greek 'his'
• [c] 7:38 Or 'let him come to me, and let him who believes in me drink. As'