John 7:1-24

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because ¹the Jews^[a] were seeking to kill him.

2 Now ²the Jews' Feast of ³Booths was at hand.

3 ⁴So his brothers^[b] said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.

4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, ⁵show yourself to the world."

5 ⁶For not even ⁷his brothers believed in him.

6 Jesus said to them, ⁸"My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

7 The world cannot hate you, but ⁹it hates me because I testify about it that ¹⁰its works are evil.

8 You go up to the feast. I am not^[c] going up to this feast, for ¹¹my time has not yet fully come."

9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

10 But after ¹²his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.

11 ¹³The Jews ¹⁴were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"

12 And there was much ¹⁵muttering about him among the people. ¹⁶While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, ¹⁷he is leading the people astray."

13 Yet ¹⁸for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

14 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ¹⁹into the temple and began teaching.

15 The Jews therefore ²⁰marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning,^[d] when he has never studied?"

16 So Jesus answered them, ²¹"My teaching is not mine, but his ²²who sent me.

17 ²³If anyone's will is to do God's^[e] will, ²⁴he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ²⁵am speaking on my own authority.

18 The one who speaks on his own authority ²⁶seeks 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 ²⁷Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ²⁸Why do you seek to kill me?"

20 The crowd answered, ²⁹"You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"

21 Jesus answered them, "I did ³⁰one work, and you all marvel at it.

22 ³¹Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ³²from 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, ³³are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?

24 ³⁴Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."

Cross References

• 1. John 5:18; John 8:37, 40; John 11:53
• 2. John 5:1; John 6:4
• 3. See Leviticus 23:34
• 4. ver. 5, 10; See Matthew 12:46
• 5. [John 14:22; John 18:20]
• 6. [Matthew 13:57; Mark 3:21]
• 7. ver. 3, 10
• 8. [ver. 8, 30]; See John 2:4
• 9. John 15:18, 24
• 10. John 3:19; [Colossians 1:21; 1 John 3:12]
• 11. See John 2:4
• 12. ver. 3, 5
• 13. ver. 1
• 14. John 11:56
• 15. ver. 32
• 16. [ver. 40-43]
• 17. ver. 47
• 18. John 19:38; John 20:19; [John 9:22; John 12:42]
• 19. ver. 28
• 20. [ver. 46; Luke 2:47; Luke 4:22; Acts 4:13]
• 21. John 8:28; John 12:49; John 14:10, 24; [John 3:34]
• 22. See John 3:17
• 23. [John 8:31, 32; John 14:21, 23]
• 24. [John 8:43; Psalms 25:9; Daniel 12:10; Philippians 3:15]
• 25. See John 5:30
• 26. John 5:41; John 8:50
• 27. ver. 23; See John 1:17
• 28. ver. 1
• 29. John 8:48, 52; John 10:20; [Matthew 11:18; Mark 3:22; Luke 7:33]
• 30. ver. 23; John 5:2-9
• 31. Leviticus 12:3
• 32. Genesis 17:10
• 33. John 5:16; See Matthew 12:2
• 34. John 8:15; [Isaiah 11:3; 2 Corinthians 10:7]; See Deuteronomy 1:16, 17

Footnotes

• [a]. Or Judeans
• [b]. Or brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 10
• [c]. Some manuscripts add yet
• [d]. Or this man knows his letters
• [e]. Greek his