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John 7

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John 7 . 1

1 After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:1

John 7 . 2

2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:2

John 7 . 3

3 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:3

John 7 . 4

4 For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:4

John 7 . 5

5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:5

John 7 . 6

6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:6

John 7 . 7

7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:7

John 7 . 8

8 Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:8

John 7 . 9

9 Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.CJohn 07:01-11

John 7 . 10

10 But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:10

John 7 . 11

11 So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”CJohn 07:01-11TOSKJohn 7:11

John 7 . 12

12 Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:12

John 7 . 13

13 Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:13

John 7 . 14

14 About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:14TTSolomon's Temple (Glory of God's Dwelling)

John 7 . 15

15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:15

John 7 . 16

16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.IPDeuteronomy 18:18CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:16

John 7 . 17

17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:17

John 7 . 18

18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:18

John 7 . 19

19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:19

John 7 . 20

20 “You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:20

John 7 . 21

21 Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:21

John 7 . 22

22 But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)IPGenesis 17:10-13CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:22

John 7 . 23

23 If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?IPGenesis 17:10-13CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:23

John 7 . 24

24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”IPLeviticus 19:15CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:24

John 7 . 25

25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:25

John 7 . 26

26 Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:26

John 7 . 27

27 But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:27

John 7 . 28

28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:28

John 7 . 29

29 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:29

John 7 . 30

30 So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:30

John 7 . 31

31 Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:31

John 7 . 32

32 When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:32

John 7 . 33

33 So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:33

John 7 . 34

34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:34

John 7 . 35

35 At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:35

John 7 . 36

36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:36

John 7 . 37

37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.IPNehemiah 9:15 · Isaiah 55:1 · Leviticus 15:13 · Exodus 17:6 · Ezekiel 47:1-12CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:37TTFeast of Tabernacles (Dwelling with God) · Living Water (Spirit and Life) · Water from the Rock (The Spiritual Rock) · Water of Purification (Living Water and Ashes) · Pool of Bethesda (Ineffective Ritual vs Christ's Power)

John 7 . 38

38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: 'Streams of living water will flow from within him.'"IPNehemiah 9:15 · Numbers 19:17CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:38TTFeast of Tabernacles (Dwelling with God) · Living Water (Spirit and Life) · Water from the Rock (The Spiritual Rock) · Water of Purification (Living Water and Ashes) · Pool of Bethesda (Ineffective Ritual vs Christ's Power) · Ashes of Red Heifer (Continual Cleansing)

John 7 . 39

39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.CJohn 07:12-39TOSKJohn 7:39TTPool of Bethesda (Ineffective Ritual vs Christ's Power)

John 7 . 40

40 On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:40

John 7 . 41

41 Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:41

John 7 . 42

42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”IPMicah 5:2CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:42

John 7 . 43

43 So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:43

John 7 . 44

44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:44

John 7 . 45

45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:45

John 7 . 46

46 “Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:46

John 7 . 47

47 “Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:47

John 7 . 48

48 “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:48

John 7 . 49

49 But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:49

John 7 . 50

50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:50

John 7 . 51

51 “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”IPDeuteronomy 1:16-17CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:51

John 7 . 52

52 “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:52

John 7 . 53

53 Then each went to his own home.CJohn 07:40-53TOSKJohn 7:53

In the wider web21 threads

Intertextuality Pairs

Allusions John 7:16 → Deuteronomy 18:18, John 7:22-23 → Genesis 17:10-13, John 7:24 → Leviticus 19:15, John 7:37 → Isaiah 55:1, John 7:37-38 → Nehemiah 9:15, John 7:37-39 → Exodus 17:6, John 7:37-39 → Leviticus 15:13, John 7:38 → Numbers 19:17, John 7:42 → Micah 5:2, John 7:51 → Deuteronomy 1:16-17

Echoes John 7:37-39 → Ezekiel 47:1-12

Trajectories

Ashes of Red Heifer (Continual Cleansing), Feast of Tabernacles (Dwelling with God), Living Water (Spirit and Life), Pool of Bethesda (Ineffective Ritual vs Christ's Power), Solomon's Temple (Glory of God's Dwelling), Water from the Rock (The Spiritual Rock), Water of Purification (Living Water and Ashes)

Chiasms

Shaped John 07:01–11, John 07:12–39, John 07:40–53