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Text -- John 7:19-53 (NET)
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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 ?
7:27 But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes , no one will know where he comes from .”
7:28 Then Jesus , while teaching in the temple courts , cried out , “You both know me and know where I come from ! And I have not come on my own initiative , but the one who sent me is true . You do not know him,
7:29 but I know him , because I have come from him and he sent me .”
7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus , but no one laid a hand on him , because his time had not yet come .
7:31 Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said , “Whenever the Christ comes , he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he ?”
7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus , so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him .
7:33 Then Jesus said , “I will be with you for only a little while longer , and then I am going to the one who sent me .
7:34 You will look for me but will not find me , and where I am you cannot come .”
7:35 Then the Jewish leaders said to one another , “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him ? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks , is he?
7:36 What did he mean by saying , ‘You will look for me but will not find me , and where I am you cannot come ’?”
Teaching About the Spirit
7:37 On the last day of the feast , the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out , “If anyone is thirsty , let him come to me , and
7:38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water .’”
7:39 (Now he said this about the Spirit , whom those who believed in him were going to receive , for the Spirit had not yet been given , because Jesus was not yet glorified .)
Differing Opinions About Jesus
7:40 When they heard these words , some of the crowd began to say , “This really is the Prophet !”
7:41 Others said , “This is the Christ !” But still others said , “No , for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee , does he?
7:42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem , the village where David lived ?”
7:43 So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus .
7:44 Some of them were wanting to seize him , but no one laid a hand on him .
Lack of Belief
7:45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees , who said to them , “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”
7:46 The officers replied , “No one ever spoke like this man !”
7:47 Then the Pharisees answered , “You haven’t been deceived too , have you?
7:48 None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him , have they?
7:49 But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed !”
7:50 Nicodemus , who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers , said ,
7:51 “Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing , does it?”
7:52 They replied , “You aren’t from Galilee too , are you ? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee !”
A Woman Caught in Adultery
7:53 And each one departed to his own house .
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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 |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 |
Nicodemus |
Temple |
GALILEE |
Sabbath |
Persecution |
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT |
JESUS CHRIST, 4E2 |
INSPIRATION, 1-7 |
Water |
Faith |
MESSIAH |
Pharisees |
Justice |
RULER |
LAW IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
QUOTATIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
Holy Spirit |
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NET Notes -> 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; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:27; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:29; Joh 7:29; Joh 7:29; Joh 7:30; Joh 7:30; Joh 7:30; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:31; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:32; Joh 7:33; Joh 7:33; Joh 7:34; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:35; Joh 7:36; Joh 7:36; Joh 7:37; Joh 7:37; Joh 7:38; Joh 7:38; Joh 7:38; Joh 7:39; Joh 7:39; Joh 7:40; Joh 7:40; Joh 7:40; Joh 7:41; Joh 7:41; Joh 7:41; Joh 7:41; Joh 7:42; Joh 7:42; Joh 7:42; Joh 7:42; Joh 7:42; Joh 7:43; Joh 7:43; Joh 7:44; Joh 7:45; Joh 7:45; Joh 7:45; Joh 7:45; Joh 7:47; Joh 7:47; Joh 7:48; Joh 7:48; Joh 7:49; Joh 7:50; Joh 7:50; Joh 7:50; Joh 7:51; Joh 7:51; Joh 7:51; Joh 7:52; Joh 7:52; Joh 7:52; Joh 7:52; Joh 7:53; Joh 7:53
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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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NET Notes: Joh 7:27 The view of these people regarding the Messiah that no one will know where he comes from reflects the idea that the origin of the Messiah is a mystery...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:31 Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the ...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:32 Grk “to seize him.” In the context of a deliberate attempt by the servants of the chief priests and Pharisees to detain Jesus, the English...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:35 Note the Jewish opponents’ misunderstanding of Jesus’ words, as made clear in vv. 35-36. They didn’t realize he spoke of his departu...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:38 An OT quotation whose source is difficult to determine; Isa 44:3, 55:1, 58:11, and Zech 14:8 have all been suggested.
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NET Notes: Joh 7:40 The Prophet is a reference to the “prophet like Moses” of Deut 18:15, by this time an eschatological figure in popular belief.
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NET Notes: Joh 7:41 Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the ...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:43 Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Joh 7:47 Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the ...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:48 Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the ...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:49 Grk “crowd.” “Rabble” is a good translation here because the remark by the Pharisees is so derogatory.
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NET Notes: Joh 7:51 Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the ...
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NET Notes: Joh 7:52 This claim by the leaders presents some difficulty, because Jonah had been from Gath Hepher, in Galilee (2 Kgs 14:25). Also the Babylonian Talmud late...
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