John 7 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because ^(A)the Jews^[a] were seeking to kill him. ² Now ^(B)the Jews' Feast of ^(C)Booths was at hand. ^{3 (D)}So 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, ^(E)show yourself to the world.” ^{5 (F)}For not even ^(G)his brothers believed in him. ⁶ Jesus said to them, ^(H)“My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but ^(I)it hates me because I testify about it that ^(J)its works are evil. ⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not^[c] going up to this feast, for ^(K)my time has not yet fully come.” ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

¹⁰ But after ^(L)his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. ^{11 (M)}The Jews ^(N)were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was much ^(O)muttering about him among the people. ^(P)While some said, “He is a good man”, others said, “No, ^(Q)he is leading the people astray.” ¹³ Yet ^(R)for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

¹⁴ About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^(S)into the temple and began teaching. ¹⁵ The Jews therefore ^(T)marvelled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning,^[d] when he has never studied?” ¹⁶ So Jesus answered them, ^(U)“My teaching is not mine, but his ^(V)who sent me. ^{17 (W)}If anyone's will is to do God's^[e] will, ^(X)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^(Y)am speaking on my own authority. ¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority ^(Z)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. ^{19 (AA)}Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(AB)Why do you seek to kill me?” ²⁰ The crowd answered, ^(AC)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” ²¹ Jesus answered them, “I did ^(AD)one work, and you all marvel at it. ^{22 (AE)}Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(AF)from 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, ^(AG)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ^{24 (AH)}Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgement.”

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(AI)they seek to kill? ²⁶ And here he is, ^(AJ)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(AK)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷ But ^(AL)we know ^(AM)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(AN)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸ So Jesus proclaimed, ^(AO)as he taught in the temple, ^(AP)“You know me, and you know where I come from? But ^(AQ)I have not come of my own accord. ^(AR)He who sent me is true, ^(AS)and him you do not know. ^{29 (AT)}I know him, for I come ^(AU)from him, and ^(AV)he sent me.” ^{30 (AW)}So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(AX)no one laid a hand on him, ^(AY)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ Yet ^(AZ)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(BA)“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 ^(BB)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(BC)officers to arrest him. ³³ Jesus then said, ^(BD)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(BE)I am going to him who sent me. ^{34 (BF)}You 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? ^(BG)Does he intend to go to ^(BH)the Dispersion among ^(BI)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean by saying, ^(BJ)‘You will seek me and you will not find me’, and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

^{37 (BK)}On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^(BL)“If anyone thirsts, let him ^(BM)come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, ^(BN)as^[f] the Scripture has said, ^(BO)‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^(BP)living water.’” ³⁹ Now ^(BQ)this he said about the Spirit, ^(BR)whom those who believed in him were to receive, ^(BS)for as yet the Spirit had not been ^(BT)given, ^(BU)because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰ When they heard these words, ^(BV)some of the people said, “This really is ^(BW)the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is ^(BX)the Christ.” But some said, ^(BY)“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^(BZ)from the offspring of David, and comes ^(CA)from Bethlehem, the village ^(CB)where David was?” ⁴³ So there was ^(CC)a division among the people over him. ^{44 (CD)}Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

^{45 (CE)}The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(CF)“No one ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them, ^(CG)“Have you also been deceived? ^{48 (CH)}Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” ^{50 (CI)}Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ^{51 (CJ)}“Does our law judge a man without first ^(CK)giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” ⁵² They replied, ^(CL)“Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ^(CM)no prophet arises from Galilee.”

[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]^[g]

The Woman Caught in Adultery

⁵³ [[They went each to his own house,

Footnotes

1. John 7:1 Or Judeans
2. John 7:3 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 10
3. John 7:8 Some manuscripts add yet
4. John 7:15 Or this man knows his letters
5. John 7:17 Greek his
6. John 7:38 Or let him come to me, and let him who believes in me drink. As
7. John 7:53 Some manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11; others add the passage here or after 7:36 or after 21:25 or after Luke 21:38, with variations in the text

Cross references

1. John 7:1 : ch. 5:18; 8:37, 40; 11:53
2. John 7:2 : ch. 5:1; 6:4
3. John 7:2 : See Lev. 23:34
4. John 7:3 : ver. 5, 10; See Matt. 12:46
5. John 7:4 : [ch. 14:22; 18:20]
6. John 7:5 : [Matt. 13:57; Mark 3:21]
7. John 7:5 : ver. 3, 10
8. John 7:6 : [ver. 8, 30]; See ch. 2:4
9. John 7:7 : ch. 15:18, 24
10. John 7:7 : ch. 3:19; [Col. 1:21; 1 John 3:12]
11. John 7:8 : See ch. 2:4
12. John 7:10 : ver. 3, 5
13. John 7:11 : ver. 1
14. John 7:11 : ch. 11:56
15. John 7:12 : ver. 32
16. John 7:12 : [ver. 40-43]
17. John 7:12 : ver. 47
18. John 7:13 : ch. 19:38; 20:19; [ch. 9:22; 12:42]
19. John 7:14 : ver. 28
20. John 7:15 : [ver. 46; Luke 2:47; 4:22; Acts 4:13]
21. John 7:16 : ch. 8:28; 12:49; 14:10, 24; [ch. 3:34]
22. John 7:16 : See ch. 3:17
23. John 7:17 : [ch. 8:31, 32; 14:21, 23]
24. John 7:17 : [ch. 8:43; Ps. 25:9; Dan. 12:10; Phil. 3:15]
25. John 7:17 : See ch. 5:30
26. John 7:18 : ch. 5:41; 8:50
27. John 7:19 : ver. 23; See ch. 1:17
28. John 7:19 : ver. 1
29. John 7:20 : ch. 8:48, 52; 10:20; [Matt. 11:18; Mark 3:22; Luke 7:33]
30. John 7:21 : ver. 23; ch. 5:2-9
31. John 7:22 : Lev. 12:3
32. John 7:22 : Gen. 17:10
33. John 7:23 : ch. 5:16; See Matt. 12:2
34. John 7:24 : ch. 8:15; [Isa. 11:3; 2 Cor. 10:7]; See Deut. 1:16, 17
35. John 7:25 : ver. 1
36. John 7:26 : ch. 18:20
37. John 7:26 : ver. 48
38. John 7:27 : [ch. 6:42; 8:14, 19; 9:29]
39. John 7:27 : ch. 19:9
40. John 7:27 : [ver. 42]
41. John 7:28 : ver. 14
42. John 7:28 : [See ver. 27 above]; [ch. 6:42; 8:14, 19; 9:29]
43. John 7:28 : ch. 8:42; [ch. 5:43]
44. John 7:28 : See ch. 8:26
45. John 7:28 : ch. 8:19; 15:21; [ch. 4:22; 8:55]
46. John 7:29 : ch. 8:55; See Matt. 11:27
47. John 7:29 : ch. 6:46; 9:16, 33; [ch. 1:14]
48. John 7:29 : See ch. 3:17
49. John 7:30 : ver. 44; ch. 10:39; [Matt. 21:46]
50. John 7:30 : ch. 8:20
51. John 7:30 : ver. 6
52. John 7:31 : ch. 8:30; 10:42; 11:45; 12:11; [ch. 2:23; 12:42; Matt. 21:11]
53. John 7:31 : Matt. 12:23
54. John 7:32 : ver. 12
55. John 7:32 : ver. 45, 46
56. John 7:33 : ch. 12:35; 13:33; 14:19; 16:16-19
57. John 7:33 : ch. 16:5
58. John 7:34 : ch. 8:21; 13:33
59. John 7:35 : [ch. 8:22]
60. John 7:35 : James 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1; [Isa. 11:12; Zeph. 3:10]
61. John 7:35 : ch. 12:20
62. John 7:36 : ver. 34
63. John 7:37 : Lev. 23:36; Num. 29:35; Neh. 8:18
64. John 7:37 : Isa. 55:1; See ch. 4:14
65. John 7:37 : See ch. 6:35
66. John 7:38 : [Isa. 12:3; Ezek. 47:1]
67. John 7:38 : ch. 4:14; [Prov. 18:4]
68. John 7:38 : See ch. 4:10
69. John 7:39 : Isa. 44:3; [1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:14]
70. John 7:39 : Joel 2:28; Acts 2:16-18; [ch. 1:33; 20:22; Luke 24:49]
71. John 7:39 : Acts 2:4, 33
72. John 7:39 : ch. 3:34; Luke 11:13
73. John 7:39 : ch. 14:16, 17; 16:7
74. John 7:40 : See ver. 31
75. John 7:40 : ch. 1:21; 6:14; See Matt. 21:11
76. John 7:41 : ver. 26
77. John 7:41 : [ver. 52; ch. 1:46]
78. John 7:42 : [Ps. 89:3, 4]; See Matt. 1:1
79. John 7:42 : Mic. 5:2; Matt. 2:1, 5; Luke 2:4
80. John 7:42 : 1 Sam. 16:1
81. John 7:43 : ch. 9:16; 10:19; [ver. 12]
82. John 7:44 : ver. 30
83. John 7:45 : ver. 32
84. John 7:46 : See Matt. 7:29
85. John 7:47 : ver. 12
86. John 7:48 : 1 Cor. 1:20, 26; 2:8; [ch. 12:42]
87. John 7:50 : ch. 3:1; 19:39
88. John 7:51 : Deut. 17:6; 19:15; [Acts 23:3]
89. John 7:51 : Deut. 1:16; Prov. 18:13
90. John 7:52 : ver. 41
91. John 7:52 : [2 Kgs. 14:25 with Josh. 19:13]