John 7:14-36

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? 27 But a we know b where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, c no one will know where he comes from." 28 So Jesus proclaimed, d as he taught in the temple, a "You know me, and you know where I come from? But e I have not come of my own accord. f He who sent me is true, g and him you do not know. 29 h I know him, for I come i from him, and j he sent me." 30 k So they were seeking to arrest him, but l no one laid a hand on him, m because his hour had not yet come. 31 Yet n many of the people believed in him. They said, o "When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd p muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent q officers to arrest him. 33 Jesus then said, r "I will be with you a little longer, and then s I am going to him who sent me. 34 t You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come." 35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? u Does he intend to go to v the Dispersion among w the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What does he mean by saying, x 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

  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?
  20. Cross References
    John 6:42
    They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven' ?
    John 8:14
    Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
    John 8:19
    They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.
    John 9:29
    We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.
  21. Cross References
    John 19:9
    He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
  22. Cross References
    John 7:42
    Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?
  23. Cross References
    John 7:14
    About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
  24. Cross References
    John 7:27
    But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.
  25. Cross References
    John 8:42
    Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
    John 5:43
    I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
  26. Cross References
    John 8:26
    I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.
  27. Cross References
    John 8:19
    They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.
    John 15:21
    But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
    John 4:22
    You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
    John 8:55
    But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
  28. Cross References
    John 8:55
    But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
    Matthew 11:27
    All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
  29. Cross References
    John 6:46
    Not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
    John 9:16
    Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.
    John 9:33
    If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.
    John 1:14
    And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
  30. 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.
  31. Cross References
    John 7:44
    Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
    John 10:39
    Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
    Matthew 21:46
    And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
  32. Cross References
    John 8:20
    These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
  33. Cross References
    John 7:6
    Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
  34. Cross References
    John 8:30
    As he was saying these things, many believed in...
    John 10:42
    And many believed in him there.
    John 11:45
    Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with M...
    John 12:11
    Because on account of him many of the Jews were...
    John 2:23
    Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Fe...
    John 12:42
    Nevertheless, many even of the authorities beli...
    Matthew 21:11
    And the crowds said, "This is the prophet Jesus...
  35. Cross References
    Matthew 12:23
    And all the people were amazed, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?
  36. Cross References
    John 7:12
    And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, he is leading the people astray.
  37. Cross References
    John 7:45 - 46
    The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?
  38. Cross References
    John 12:35
    So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
    John 13:33
    Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.
    John 14:19
    Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
    John 16:16 - 19
    "A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me."
  39. Cross References
    John 16:5
    But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?
  40. Cross References
    John 8:21
    So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.
    John 13:33
    Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.
  41. Cross References
    John 8:22
    So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come' ?
  42. Cross References
    James 1:1
    James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
    1 Peter 1:1
    Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
    Isaiah 11:12
    He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
    Zephaniah 3:10
    From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.
  43. Cross References
    John 12:20
    Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.
  44. Cross References
    John 7:34
    You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.
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