The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 7
{7:1} After these things, Yeshua was walking in the Galil, for he
wouldn't walk in Yehudah, because the Yehudim sought to kill him.
{7:2} Now the feast of the Yehudim, the Feast of Sukkot, was at hand.
{7:3} His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go
into Yehudah, that your [1>]talmidim[<1] also may see your works which
you do. {7:4} For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to
be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the
world." {7:5} For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
{7:6} Yeshua therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but
your time is always ready. {7:7} The world can't hate you, but it
hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. {7:8}
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because
my time is not yet fulfilled."
{7:9} Having said these things to them, he stayed in the Galil.
{7:10} But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also
went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. {7:11} The Yehudim
therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" {7:12}
There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some
said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the
multitude astray." {7:13} Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of
the Yehudim. {7:14} But when it was now the midst of the feast, Yeshua
went up into the temple and taught. {7:15} The Yehudim therefore
marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been
educated?"
{7:16} Yeshua therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but
his who sent me. {7:17} If anyone desires to do his will, he will know
about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from
myself. {7:18} He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he
who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him. {7:19} Didn't Moshe give you the law, and
yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
{7:20} The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill
you?"
{7:21} Yeshua answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel
because of it. {7:22} Moshe has given you circumcision (not that it is
of Moshe, but of the fathers), and on the Shabbat you circumcise a
boy. {7:23} If a boy receives circumcision on the Shabbat, that the
law of Moshe may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made
a man every bit whole on the Shabbat? {7:24} Don't judge according to
appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
{7:25} Therefore some of them of Yerushalayim said, "Isn't this he
whom they seek to kill? {7:26} Behold, he speaks openly, and they say
nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is
truly the Messiah? {7:27} However we know where this man comes from,
but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."
{7:28} Yeshua therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and
saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come
of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know. {7:29} I
know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
{7:30} They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on
him, because his hour had not yet come. {7:31} But of the multitude,
many believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do
more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" {7:32} The
Perushim heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him,
and the chief [2>]Kohanim[<2] and the Perushim sent officers to arrest
him.
{7:33} Then Yeshua said, "I will be with you a little while longer,
then I go to him who sent me. {7:34} You will seek me, and won't find
me; and where I am, you can't come."
{7:35} The Yehudim therefore said among themselves, "Where will this
man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the
Yevanim, and teach the Yevanim? {7:36} What is this word that he said,
'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"
{7:37} Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Yeshua stood
and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
{7:38} He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within
him will flow rivers of living water." {7:39} But he said this about
the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the
[3>]Ruach HaKodesh[<3] was not yet given, because Yeshua wasn't yet
glorified.
{7:40} Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words,
said, "This is truly the prophet." {7:41} Others said, "This is the
Messiah." But some said, "What, does the Messiah come out of the
Galil? {7:42} Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the
seed of David, and from Beit-Lechem, the village where David was?"
{7:43} So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
{7:44} Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on
him. {7:45} The officers therefore came to the chief [4>]Kohanim[<4]
and Perushim, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
{7:46} The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
{7:47} The Perushim therefore answered them, "You aren't also led
astray, are you? {7:48} Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of
the Perushim? {7:49} But this multitude that doesn't know the law is
accursed."
{7:50} Nakdimon (he who came to him by night, being one of them)
said to them, {7:51} "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears
from him personally and knows what he does?"
{7:52} They answered him, "Are you also from the Galil? Search, and
see that no prophet has arisen out of the Galil."
{7:53} Everyone went to his own house,
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:3} disciples
[2] {7:32} priests
[3] {7:39} Holy Spirit
[4] {7:45} priests
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