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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:
 · Galilee the region of Palestine north of Sameria and west of the upper Jordan River,a region west of Lake Galilee and north of the Jezreel Valley
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Jews the people descended from Israel
 · Judea a region that roughly corresponded to the earlier kingdom of Judah
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law


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 | more
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NET Notes: Joh 7:1 Grk “were seeking.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:2 Since the present verse places these incidents at the feast of Tabernacles (a.d. 29 or 32, depending on whether one dates the crucifixion in a.d. 30 o...

NET Notes: Joh 7:3 Should the advice by Jesus’ brothers, Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing, be understood ...

NET Notes: Joh 7:4 No one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret means, in effect: “if you’re going to perform signs to authentic...

NET Notes: Joh 7:5 This is a parenthetical note by the author.

NET Notes: Joh 7:6 Grk “your time is always ready.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:8 Or “my time has not yet come to an end” (a possible hint of Jesus’ death at Jerusalem); Grk “my time is not yet fulfilled.R...

NET Notes: Joh 7:10 Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Joh 7:11 Grk “Where is that one?”

NET Notes: Joh 7:12 Or “the crowd.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:13 Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” Here the phrase refers to the Jewish authorities or leaders who were Jesus’...

NET Notes: Joh 7:14 Or “started teaching.” An ingressive sense for the imperfect verb (“began to teach” or “started teaching”) fits we...

NET Notes: Joh 7:15 He has never had formal instruction. Ironically when the Jewish leaders came face to face with the Word become flesh – the preexistent Logos, cr...

NET Notes: Joh 7:16 The phrase “the one who sent me” refers to God.

NET Notes: Joh 7:17 Grk “or whether I speak from myself.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:18 Or “is truthful”; Grk “is true.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:19 Grk “seek.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:20 Who is trying to kill you? Many of the crowd (if they had come in from surrounding regions for the feast) probably were ignorant of any plot. The plot...

NET Notes: Joh 7:21 The “one miracle” that caused them all to be amazed was the last previous public miracle in Jerusalem recorded by the author, the healing ...

NET Notes: Joh 7:22 Grk “a man.” While the text literally reads “circumcise a man” in actual fact the practice of circumcising male infants on the...

NET Notes: Joh 7:23 Or “made an entire man well.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:24 Or “honest”; Grk “righteous.”

NET Notes: Joh 7:25 Grk “seeking.”

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