John Chapter 7

John Chapter 7

Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

After this,
Jesus went around
in Galilee.

He did not want to go
about in Judea

because

the Jewish leaders there

were looking for a way

to kill him.

“The Pharisees were the most influential religious/political group at the time of Jesus. They were involved in the plot to kill Jesus.

But when
the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles
was near,

Jesus’ brothers said to him,
“Leave Galilee and go to Judea,

so that your disciples there
may see the works you do.

No one
who wants
to become a public figure
acts in secret.

Since
you are doing these things,
show yourself to the world.”

For even
his own brothers did not
believe in him.

Therefore
Jesus told them,

“My time is not yet here;
for you any time will do.

The world cannot hate you,

but it hates me

because

I testify that

its works are evil.

You go to the festival.
I am not going up to this festival,

because
my time has not yet
fully come.”

After he had said this,
he stayed in Galilee.

However,
after his brothers had left
for the festival,

he went also,
not publicly, but in secret.

Now
at the festival
the Jewish leaders
were watching for Jesus
and asking,

“Where is he?”

Among the crowds
there was widespread
whispering about him.

Some said,

“H is a good man.”

Others replied,

“No, he deceives the people.”

But
no one would say
anything publicly about him
for fear of the leaders.

Jesus Teaches at the Festival

Not until halfway through
the festival did Jesus go up to
the temple courts and
begin to teach.

The Jews there were
amazed and
asked,

“How did this man
get such learning without
having been taught?”

Jesus answered,

“My teaching is not my own.

It comes from the one

who sent me.

Anyone

who chooses

to do the will of God

will find out

whether my teaching

comes from God or

whether I speak on my own.

Whoever

speaks on their own

does so to gain

personal glory,

but he who seeks the glory

of the one who sent him

is a man of truth;

there is nothing false

about him.

Has not Moses given you the law?

Yet not one of you keeps the law.

Why are you trying to kill me?”

“You are demon-possessed,”

the crowd answered.

“Who is trying to kill you?”

Jesus said to them,

“I did one miracle,

and you are all amazed.

Yet, because
Moses gave you circumcision
(though actually it did not come from Moses,
but from the patriarchs),

you circumcise a boy
on the Sabbath.

Now
if a boy can be circumcised
on the Sabbath

so that the law of Moses
may not be broken,

why are you angry with me

for healing a man’s whole body

on the Sabbath?

Stop judging

by mere appearances,

but instead judge correctly.”

Division Over Who Jesus Is

At that point
some of the people of Jerusalem
began to ask,

“Isn’t this the man

they are trying to kill?

Here he is,

speaking publicly,

and they are not saying

a word to him.

Have the authorities

really concluded that

he is the Messiah?

But we know
where this man is from;

when the Messiah comes,
no one will know
where he is from.”

Then Jesus,
still teaching in the temple courts,
cried out,

“Yes, you know me,

and you know where I am from.

I am not here on my own authority,

but he who sent me is true.

You do not know him,

but I know him

because I am from him

and he sent me.”

At this
they tried to seize him,

but no one
laid a hand on him,

because
his hour had not yet
come.

Still, many in the crowd
believed in him.

They said,
“When the Messiah comes,

will he perform
more signs than this man?”

The Pharisees
heard the crowd whispering
such things about him.

Then

the chief priests and the Pharisees

sent temple guards

to arrest him.

Jesus said,

“I am with you

for only a short time,

and then I am going to

the one who sent me.

You will look for me,

but you will not find me;

and where I am,

you cannot come.”

The Jews said to one another,

“Where does this man intend to go
that we cannot find him?

Will he go where our people live
scattered among the Greeks,
and teach the Greeks?

What did he mean
when he said, ‘You will look for me,
but you will not find me,’

and ‘Where I am,
you cannot come’?”

On the last
and greatest day of the festival,

Jesus stood and said
in a loud voice,

“Let anyone

who is thirsty

come to me

and drink.

Whoever believes in me,

as Scripture has said,

rivers of living water

will flow from

within them.”

By this he meant

the Spirit,

whom those who

believed in him were later

to receive.

Up to that time
the Spirit had not been given,

since Jesus had not yet
been glorified.

On hearing his words,
some of the people said,

“Surely this man is the Prophet.”

Others said,
“He is the Messiah.”

Still others asked,
“How can the Messiah
come from Galilee?

Does not Scripture say
that the Messiah will come from
David’s descendants and
from Bethlehem,

the town where David lived?”

Thus the people were
divided because of Jesus.

Some wanted to seize him,
but no one laid a hand on him.

Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders

Finally the temple guards
went back to the chief priests
and the Pharisees, who asked them,

“Why didn’t you bring him in?”

“No one ever spoke

the way this man does,”

the guards replied.

“You mean
he has deceived you also?”
the Pharisees retorted.

“Have any of the rulers
or of the Pharisees believed
in him?

No! But this mob
that knows nothing of the law—
there is a curse on them.”

Nicodemus,
who had gone to Jesus earlier
and who was one of their own number,
asked,

“Does our law condemn a man
without first hearing him to find out
what he has been doing?”

They replied,
“Are you from Galilee, too?

Look into it,
and you will find that
a prophet does not come out
of Galilee.”

[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53—8:11. A few manuscripts include these verses, wholly or in part, after John 7:36, John 21:25, Luke 21:38 or Luke 24:53.]

Then they all went home,

요한복음 7장

7:1

그 후에

예수께서 갈릴리에서 다니시고

유대에서 다니려 아니하심은

유대인들이 죽이려 함이러라

7:2

유대인의 명절인
초막절이 가까운지라

7:3

그 형제들이 예수께 이르되
당신이 행하는 일을 제자들도 보게
여기를 떠나 유대로 가소서

7:4

스스로 나타나기를 구하면서
묻혀서 일하는 사람이 없나니

이 일을 행하려 하거든
자신을 세상에 나타내소서 하니

7:5

이는 그 형제들까지도
예수를 믿지 아니함이러라

7:6

예수께서 이르시되
내 때는 아직 이르지 아니하였거니와

너희 때는 늘 준비되어 있느니라

7:7

세상이 너희를 미워하지 아니하되

나를 미워하나니

이는 내가

세상의 일들을 악하다고

증언함이라

7:8

너희는 명절에 올라가라
내 때가 아직 차지 못하였으니

나는 이 명절에
아직 올라가지 아니하노라

7:9

이 말씀을 하시고
갈릴리에 머물러 계시니라

7:10

그 형제들이 명절에 올라간 후에
자기도 올라가시되

나타내지 않고 은밀히 가시니라

7:11

명절 중에 유대인들이
예수를 찾으면서 그가 어디 있느냐 하고

7:12

예수께 대하여
무리 중에서 수군거림이 많아

어떤 사람은

좋은 사람이라 하며

어떤 사람은

아니라 무리를 미혹한다 하나

7:13

그러나

유대인들을 두려워하므로

드러나게 그에 대하여

말하는 자가 없더라

7:14

이미 명절의 중간이 되어
예수께서 성전에 올라가사 가르치시니

7:15

유대인들이 놀랍게 여겨 이르되

이 사람은 배우지 아니하였거늘

어떻게 글을 아느냐 하니

7:16

예수께서 대답하여 이르시되

내 교훈은 내 것이 아니요

나를 보내신 이의 것이니라

7:17

사람이

하나님의 뜻을 행하려 하면

이 교훈이 하나님께로부터 왔는지

내가 스스로 말함인지 알리라

7:18

스스로 말하는 자는

자기 영광만 구하되

보내신 이의 영광을 구하는 자는

참되니

그 속에 불의가 없느니라