John 7:14-26

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

14 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up h into the temple and began teaching. 15 The Jews therefore i marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, 1 when he has never studied?" 16 So Jesus answered them, j "My teaching is not mine, but his k who sent me. 17 l If anyone's will is to do God's 2 will, m he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I n am speaking on my own authority. 18 The one who speaks on his own authority o seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. 19 p Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. q Why do you seek to kill me?" 20 The crowd answered, r "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?" 21 Jesus answered them, "I did s one work, and you all marvel at it. 22 t Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but u from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, v are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? 24 w Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."

Can This Be the Christ?

25 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom x they seek to kill? 26 And here he is, y speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that z the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

  1. Cross References
    John 7:28
    So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
  2. Cross References
    John 7:46
    The officers answered, "No one ever spoke like this man!
    Luke 2:47
    And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
    Luke 4:22
    And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?
    Acts 4:13
    Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
  3. Cross References
    John 8:28
    So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
    John 12:49
    For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment - what to say and what to speak.
    John 14:10
    Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
    John 14:24
    Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
    John 3:34
    For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
  4. Cross References
    John 3:17
    For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
  5. Cross References
    John 8:31 - 32
    So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples.
    John 14:21
    Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
    John 14:23
    Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
  6. Cross References
    John 8:43
    Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
    Psalms 25:9
    He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
    Daniel 12:10
    Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
    Philippians 3:15
    Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
  7. Cross References
    John 5:30
    I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
  8. Cross References
    John 5:41
    I do not receive glory from people.
    John 8:50
    Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.
  9. Cross References
    John 7:23
    If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
    John 1:17
    For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  10. Cross References
    John 7:1
    After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
  11. Cross References
    John 8:48
    The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in say...
    John 8:52
    The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you hav...
    John 10:20
    Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insa...
    Matthew 11:18
    For John came neither eating nor drinking, and ...
    Mark 3:22
    And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem we...
    Luke 7:33
    For John the Baptist has come eating no bread a...
  12. Cross References
    John 7:23
    If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
    John 5:2 - 9
    Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.
  13. Cross References
    Leviticus 12:3
    And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
  14. Cross References
    Genesis 17:10
    This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
  15. Cross References
    John 5:16
    And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
    Matthew 12:2
    But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.
  16. Cross References
    John 8:15
    You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
    Isaiah 11:3
    And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear.
    2 Corinthians 10:7
    Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
    Deuteronomy 1:16 - 17
    And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
  17. Cross References
    John 7:1
    After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
  18. Cross References
    John 18:20
    Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.
  19. Cross References
    John 7:48
    Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
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