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Text -- John 7:1-26 (NET)
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Context
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 ?
7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly , and they are saying nothing to him . Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ ?
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Feasts |
Jesus, The Christ |
Jerusalem |
Temple |
Sabbath |
Persecution |
JOHN, GOSPEL OF |
Presumption |
BRETHREN OF THE LORD |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 |
JAMES |
Tabernacles, Feast of |
Galilee |
Doctrines |
Circumcision |
Inconsistency |
Pentateuch |
DOCTRINE |
Hypocrisy |
Commandments |
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NET Notes -> Joh 7:1; Joh 7:1; Joh 7:1; Joh 7:1; Joh 7:1; Joh 7:1; Joh 7:2; Joh 7:2; Joh 7:3; Joh 7:3; Joh 7:3; Joh 7:3; Joh 7:4; Joh 7:4; Joh 7:5; Joh 7:6; Joh 7:6; Joh 7:6; Joh 7:6; Joh 7:8; Joh 7:8; Joh 7:8; Joh 7:8; Joh 7:10; Joh 7:11; Joh 7:11; Joh 7:12; Joh 7:12; Joh 7:12; Joh 7:12; Joh 7:13; Joh 7:14; Joh 7:14; Joh 7:15; Joh 7:15; Joh 7:15; Joh 7:15; Joh 7:16; Joh 7:16; Joh 7:17; Joh 7:17; Joh 7:18; Joh 7:18; Joh 7:18; Joh 7:18; Joh 7:18; Joh 7:18; Joh 7:19; Joh 7:19; Joh 7:20; Joh 7:20; Joh 7:20; Joh 7:20; Joh 7:21; Joh 7:21; Joh 7:21; Joh 7:22; Joh 7:22; Joh 7:23; Joh 7:23; Joh 7:23; Joh 7:23; Joh 7:24; Joh 7:24; Joh 7:25; Joh 7:25; Joh 7:25; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:26
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:10 Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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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’...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:14 Or “started teaching.” An ingressive sense for the imperfect verb (“began to teach” or “started teaching”) fits we...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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