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Text -- John 7:1-25 (NET)
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The Feast of Tabernacles
7:1 After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee . He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him .
7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near .
7:3 So Jesus ’ brothers advised him , “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing .
7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret . If you are doing these things , show yourself to the world .”
7:5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him .)
7:6 So Jesus replied , “My time has not yet arrived , but you are ready at any opportunity !
7:7 The world cannot hate you , but it hates me , because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil .
7:8 You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived .”
7:9 When he had said this , he remained in Galilee .
7:10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast , then Jesus himself also went up , not openly but in secret .
7:11 So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast , asking , “Where is he ?”
7:12 There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds . Some were saying , “He is a good man ,” but others , “He deceives the common people .”
7:13 However , no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders .
Teaching in the Temple
7:14 When the feast was half over , Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach .
7:15 Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said , “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction ?”
7:16 So Jesus replied , “My teaching is not from me , but from the one who sent me .
7:17 If anyone wants to do God’s will , he will know about my teaching , whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority .
7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself ; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity , and there is no unrighteousness in him .
7:19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law ? Yet not one of you keeps the law ! Why do you want to kill me ?”
7:20 The crowd answered , “You’re possessed by a demon ! Who is trying to kill you ?”
7:21 Jesus replied , “I performed one miracle and you are all amazed .
7:22 However , because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses , but from the forefathers ), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath .
7:23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken , why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath ?
7:24 Do not judge according to external appearance , but judge with proper judgment .”
Questions About Jesus’ Identity
7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say , “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill ?
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Feasts |
Jesus, The Christ |
Jerusalem |
Temple |
Sabbath |
Persecution |
JOHN, GOSPEL OF |
JAMES |
Tabernacles, Feast of |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 |
Presumption |
BRETHREN OF THE LORD |
DOCTRINE |
Inconsistency |
Circumcision |
Pentateuch |
Doctrines |
Galilee |
Demons |
Hypocrisy |
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