Gospel According to John (WEB)

7:1 After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ^7:2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. ^7:3His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. ^7:4For no man does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." ^7:5For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

^7:6Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ^7:7The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. ^7:8You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

^7:9Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. ^7:10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ^7:11The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" ^7:12There 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." ^7:13Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. ^7:14But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ^7:15The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

^7:16Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ^7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I speak from myself. ^7:18He 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. ^7:19Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

^7:20The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

^7:21Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. ^7:22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. ^7:23If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath? ^7:24Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

^7:25Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? ^7:26Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? ^7:27However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

^7:28Jesus 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. ^7:29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

^7:30They sought therefore to take him. No one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ^7:31But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those which this man has done?" ^7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

^7:33Then Jesus said, "Yet a little while, am I with you, then I go to him who sent me. ^7:34You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

^7:35The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? ^7:36What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"

^7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! ^7:38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." ^7:39But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

^7:40Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." ^7:41Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? ^7:42Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" ^7:43So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. ^7:44Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ^7:45The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

^7:46The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

^7:47The Pharisees therefore answered them, "Are you also led astray? ^7:48Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ^7:49But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

^7:50Nicodemus (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?"

^7:52They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

^7:53Everyone went to his own house,