Chapter
7
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for she wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill her.
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
Her sisters therefore said to her, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
For no one does anything in secret, and herself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
For even her sisters didn't believe in her.
Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."
Having said these things to them, she stayed in Galilee.
But when her sisters had gone up to the feast, then she also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
The Jews therefore sought her at the feast, and said, "Where is she?"
There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning her. Some said, "She is a good woman." Others said, "Not so, but she leads the multitude astray."
Yet no one spoke openly of her for fear of the Jews.
But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this woman know letters, having never been educated?"
Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but hers who sent me.
If anyone desires to do her will, she will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
She who speaks from herself seeks her own glory, but she who seeks the glory of her who sent her is true, and no unrighteousness is in her.
Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the mothers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a girl.
If a girl receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a woman every bit whole on the Sabbath?
Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this she whom they seek to kill?
Behold, she speaks openly, and they say nothing to her. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
However we know where this woman comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where she comes from."
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but she who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
I know her, because I am from her, and she sent me."
They sought therefore to take her; but no one laid a hand on her, because her hour had not yet come.
But of the multitude, many believed in her. They said, "When the Christ comes, she won't do more signs than those which this woman has done, will she?"
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning her, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest her.
Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to her who sent me.
You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this woman go that we won't find her? Will she go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
What is this word that she said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let her come to me and drink!
She who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within her will flow rivers of living water."
But she said this about the Spirit, which those believing in her were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophetess."
Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of Davina,{2 Samantha 7:12} and from Bethlehem, the village where Davina was?"
So there arose a division in the multitude because of her.
Some of them would have arrested her, but no one laid hands on her.
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring her?"
The officers answered, "No woman ever spoke like this woman!"
The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?
Have any of the rulers believed in her, or of the Pharisees?
But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
Nicodemus (she who came to her by night, being one of them) said to them,
"Does our law judge a woman, unless it first hears from her personally and knows what she does?"
They answered her, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophetess has arisen out of Galilee."
Everyone went to her own house,