John 7-8

John 7

¹And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.

³His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works which thou doest.

⁴For no man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world.

⁵For even his brethren did not believe on him.

⁶Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is alway ready.

⁷The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

⁸Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.

⁹And having said these things unto them, he abode still in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

¹²And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but he leadeth the multitude astray.

¹³Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

¹⁵The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them, and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself.

¹⁸He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

²⁰The multitude answered, Thou hast a devil: who seeketh to kill thee?

²¹Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel.

²²For this cause hath Moses given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

²³If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?

²⁴Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

²⁵Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?

²⁷Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.

²⁸Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

²⁹I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.

³⁰They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man hath done?

³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.

³³Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me.

³⁴Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come.

³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will this man go that we shall not find him? will he go unto the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

³⁶What is this word that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come?

³⁷Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

³⁸He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴²Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

⁴³So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

⁴⁶The officers answered, Never man so spake.

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?

⁴⁸Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But this multitude which knoweth not the law are accursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),

⁵¹Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

⁵²They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

⁵³[And they went every man unto his own house:

John 8

¹but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

²And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

³And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst,

⁴they say unto him, Master, this woman hath been taken in adultery, in the very act.

⁵Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?

⁶And this they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

⁷But when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

⁸And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

⁹And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst.

¹⁰And Jesus lifted up himself, and said unto her, Woman, where are they? did no man condemn thee?

¹¹And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn thee: go thy way; from henceforth sin no more.]

¹²Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

¹³The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

¹⁴Jesus answered and said unto them, Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go.

¹⁵Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

¹⁶Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

¹⁷Yea and in your law it is written, that the witness of two men is true.

¹⁸I am he that beareth witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.

¹⁹They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

²⁰These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man took him; because his hour was not yet come.

²¹He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.

²²The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come?

²³And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

²⁴I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

²⁵They said therefore unto him, Who art thou? Jesus said unto them, Even that which I have also spoken unto you from the beginning.

²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world.

²⁷They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.

²⁸Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things.

²⁹And he that sent me is with me; he hath not left me alone; for I do always the things that are pleasing to him.

³⁰As he spake these things, many believed on him.

³¹Jesus therefore said to those Jews which had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;

³²and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

³³They answered unto him, We be Abraham’s seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

³⁵And the bondservant abideth not in the house for ever: the son abideth for ever.

³⁶If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

³⁷I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

³⁸I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.

³⁹They answered and said unto him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

⁴⁰But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.

⁴¹Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

⁴²Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

⁴³Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

⁴⁴Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

⁴⁵But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.

⁴⁶Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why do ye not believe me?

⁴⁷He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.

⁴⁸The Jews answered and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

⁴⁹Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me.

⁵⁰But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

⁵¹Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he shall never see death.

⁵²The Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death.

⁵³Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

⁵⁴Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God;

⁵⁵and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word.

⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.

⁵⁷The Jews therefore said unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

⁵⁸Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

⁵⁹They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.