John 7

¹After these things Jesus walked into Galilee, for he would not walk into Jewry: because the Jews sought to kill him.

²And the festival day of the Jews, Scenopegia, was at hand.

³And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence, and go into Jewry; that thy Disciples also may see thy works which thou doest.

⁴For no man doeth any thing in secret, and seeketh himself to be in public. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.

⁵For neither did his brethren believe in him.

⁶Jesus therefore saith to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.

⁷The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil.

⁸Go you up to this festival day: I go not up to this festival day; because my time is not yet accomplished.

⁹When he had said these things, himself tarried in Galilee.

¹⁰But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the festival day, not openly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹The Jews therefore sought him in the festival day, and said: Where is he?

¹²And there was much murmuring in the multitude of him. For certain said: That he is good. And others said: No, but he seduceth the multitudes.

¹³Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴And when the festivity was now half done, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

¹⁵And the Jews marveled, saying: How doth this man know letters, whereas he hath not learned?

¹⁶Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷If any man will do the will of him, he shall understand of the doctrine whether it be of God, or I speak of myself.

¹⁸He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory. But he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and injustice in him there is not.

¹⁹Did not Moyses give you the law, and none of you doeth the law?

²⁰Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered, and said, Thou hast a devil, who seeketh to kill thee?

²¹Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done; and you do all marvel.

²²Therefore Moyses gave you circumcision: not that it is of Moyses, but of the fathers, and in the Sabboth you circumcise a man.

²³If a man receive circumcision in the Sabboth, that the law of Moyses be not broken; are you angry at me because I have healed a man wholly in the Sabboth?

²⁴Judge not according to the face, but judge just judgement.

²⁵Certain therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the Princes known indeed that this is Christ?

²⁷But this man we know whence he is. But when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

²⁸Jesus therefore cried in the temple teaching and saying: Both me you do know, and whence I am you know. And of myself I am not come, but he is true that sent me, whom you know not.

²⁹I know him, because I am of him, and he sent me.

³⁰They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands upon him, because his hour was not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude many believed in him, and said: Christ, when he cometh shall he do more signs than these which this man doeth?

³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things touching him: and the Princes and Pharisees sent Ministers to apprehend him.

³³Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little time I am with you: and I go to him that sent me.

³⁴You seek me, and shall not find: and where I am, you cannot come.

³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves, whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? will he go into the dispersion of the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

³⁶What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me, and shall not find; and where I am, you cannot come.

³⁷And in the last, the great day of the festivity Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

³⁸He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹(And this he said of the Spirit that they should receive which believed in him. For as yet the Spirit was not given: because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

⁴⁰Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the Prophet indeed.

⁴¹Others said: This is Christ. But certain said: Why, doth Christ come from Galilee?

⁴²Doth not the scripture say: That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was, Christ doth come?

⁴³Therefore there arose dissension in the multitude for him.

⁴⁴And certain of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him.

⁴⁵The ministers therefore came to the chief Priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

⁴⁶The Ministers answered: Never did there man so speak, as this man.

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them: Why, are you also seduced?

⁴⁸Hath any of the Princes believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹but this multitude that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus said to them, he that came to him by night, who was one of them:

⁵¹Doth our law judge a man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doeth?

⁵²They answered & said to him: Why, art thou also a Galilæan? Search, & see that from Galilee a Prophet riseth not.

⁵³And every man returned to his house.