Chapter 7

  And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.  

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  Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.  

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  His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works which thou doest.  

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  For no man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world.  

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  For even his brethren did not believe on him.  

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  Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.  

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  The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.  

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  Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.  

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  And having said these things unto them, he abode [still] in Galilee.  

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  But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.  

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  The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?  

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  And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but he leadeth the multitude astray.  

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

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  But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.  

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  The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?  

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  Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.  

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  If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.  

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  He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.  

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  Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?  

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  The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?  

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  Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because thereof.  

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  Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.  

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  If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?  

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  Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.  

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  Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?  

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  And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?  

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  Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.  

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  Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.  

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  I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.  

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  They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.  

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  But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man hath done?  

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  The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.  

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  Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me.  

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  Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come.  

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  The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will this man go that we shall not find him? will he go unto the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?  

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  What is this word that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye cannot come?  

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  Now on the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.  

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  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.  

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  But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet [given]; because Jesus was not yet glorified.  

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  [Some] of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.  

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  Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?  

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  Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?  

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  So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.  

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  And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.  

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  The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?  

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  The officers answered, Never man so spake.  

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  The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?  

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  Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?  

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  But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.  

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  Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),  

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  Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?  

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  They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.  

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  And they went every man unto his own house:  

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