Gospel According to John (MLV)

John 7)

^7:1 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for* he did not wish to walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ^7:2 Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was near. ^7:3 His brethren therefore said to him, Depart from here and go into Judaea, that your disciples also may behold 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, manifest yourself to the world. ^7:5 For* even his brethren did not believe in him. ^7:6 Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet here; but your* time is always ready. ^7:7 The world is not able to hate you*; but it hates me, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil. ^7:8 You* go up to the feast: I do not go up to this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled. ^7:9 And having said these things to them, he abode still in Galilee.

^7:10 But when his brethren were gone up to the feast, then he went also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ^7:11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast and said, Where is he? ^7:12 And there was great murmuring among the crowds concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but he misleads the crowd. ^7:13 Yet no one spoke openly about him because of fear of the Jews.

^7:14 But when it was already the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ^7:15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How does this man know letters, having never learned?

^7:16 Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ^7:17 If anyone is willing to practice his will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from myself. ^7:18 He who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory: but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, this one is true and no unrighteousness is in him. ^7:19 Did not Moses give you* the law and yet none of you* are doing the law? Why do you* seek to kill me?

^7:20 The crowd answered, You have a demon: who seeks to kill you?

^7:21 Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work and you* all marvel. ^7:22 Moses has given you* circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the Sabbath you* circumcise a man. ^7:23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken. Are you* bitterly angry with me, because I made a man entirely healthy on the Sabbath? ^7:24 Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

^7:25 Some therefore of those from Jerusalem said, Is this not the one whom they seek to kill? ^7:26 And behold, he speaks openly and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers truly know that this is the Christ? ^7:27 But we know where this man is from: but when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from.

^7:28 Therefore Jesus cried in the temple, teaching and saying, You* both know me and know where I am from; and I have not come from myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you* do not know. ^7:29 I know him; because I am from him and he sent me. ^7:30 They sought therefore to take him and no one laid his hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

^7:31 But of the crowd many believed in him; and they said, When the Christ will come, will he do more signs than those which this man has done? ^7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him; and the high-priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.

^7:33 Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you* and I go to him who sent me. ^7:34 You* will seek me and will not find me and where I am, you* cannot come.

^7:35 Therefore the Jews said among themselves, Where is this man about to go that we will not find him? He is not about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? ^7:36 What is this word that he said, You* will seek me and will not find me; and where I am, you* cannot come?

^7:37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 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 spoke this concerning the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive: for* the Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified. ^7:40 Some of the crowd therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is truly the prophet. ^7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, The Christ does not come out of Galilee, does he? ^7:42 Did the scripture not say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? {2Sam. 7:12, Mic 5:2} ^7:43 So there arose a division in the crowd because of him. ^7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no one laid hands on him.

^7:45 The officers therefore came to the high-priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why did you* not bring him?

^7:46 The officers answered, No man has ever spoke thus.

^7:47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, You* are not also misled, are you? ^7:48 Has any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? ^7:49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.

^7:50 Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him before, being one out of them), ^7:51 Our law does not judge a man, unless it first hear from him and know what he is doing, does it?

^7:52 They answered and said to him, You are not also of Galilee, are you? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.

^7:53 And they went every man to his own house:







Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix, copyright 1987, 1999, 2000 by G. Allen Walker for the New Testament Committee.