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John 7
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John 7
Common English Bible
Jesus goes to Jerusalem
7 After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He didn’t want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities wanted to kill him. 2 When it was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Booths, 3 Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee. Go to Judea so that your disciples can see the amazing works that you do. 4 Those who want to be known publicly don’t do things secretly. Since you can do these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 His brothers said this because even they didn’t believe in him.
6 Jesus replied, “For you, anytime is fine. But my time hasn’t come yet. 7 The world can’t hate you. It hates me, though, because I testify that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the festival. I’m not going to this one because my time hasn’t yet come.” 9 Having said this, he stayed in Galilee. 10 However, after his brothers left for the festival, he went too—not openly but in secret.
11 The Jewish leaders were looking for Jesus at the festival. They kept asking, “Where is he?” 12 The crowds were murmuring about him. “He’s a good man,” some said, but others were saying, “No, he tricks the people.” 13 No one spoke about him publicly, though, for fear of the Jewish authorities.
Jesus teaches in the temple
14 Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the temple and started to teach. 15 Astonished, the Jewish leaders asked, “He’s never been taught! How has he mastered the Law?”
16 Jesus responded, “My teaching isn’t mine but comes from the one who sent me. 17 Whoever wants to do God’s will can tell whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 Those who speak on their own seek glory for themselves. Those who seek the glory of him who sent me are people of truth; there’s no falsehood in them. 19 Didn’t Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you keep the Law. Why do you want to kill me?”
20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon. Who wants to kill you?”
21 Jesus replied, “I did one work, and you were all astonished. 22 Because Moses gave you the commandment about circumcision (although it wasn’t Moses but the patriarchs), you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23 If a man can be circumcised on the Sabbath without breaking Moses’ Law, why are you angry with me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath? 24 Don’t judge according to appearances. Judge with right judgment.”
25 Some people from Jerusalem said, “Isn’t he the one they want to kill? 26 Here he is, speaking in public, yet they aren’t saying anything to him. Could it be that our leaders actually think he is the Christ? 27 We know where he is from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28 While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he exclaimed, “You know me and where I am from. I haven’t come on my own. The one who sent me is true, and you don’t know him. 29 I know him because I am from him and he sent me.” 30 So they wanted to seize Jesus, but they couldn’t because his time hadn’t yet come.
31 Many from that crowd believed in Jesus. They said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man does?” 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about Jesus, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent guards to arrest him.
33 Therefore, Jesus said, “I’m still with you for a little while before I go to the one who sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you won’t find me, and where I am you can’t come.”
35 The Jewish opposition asked each other, “Where does he intend to go that we can’t find him? Surely he doesn’t intend to go where our people have been scattered and are living among the Greeks! He isn’t going to teach the Greeks, is he? 36 What does he mean when he says, ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me, and where I am you can’t come’?”
37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted,
“All who are thirsty should come to me!
38 All who believe in me should drink!
As the scriptures said concerning me,[a]
Rivers of living water will flow out from within him.”
39 Jesus said this concerning the Spirit. Those who believed in him would soon receive the Spirit, but they hadn’t experienced the Spirit yet since Jesus hadn’t yet been glorified.
40 When some in the crowd heard these words, they said, “This man is truly the prophet.” 41 Others said, “He’s the Christ.” But others said, “The Christ can’t come from Galilee, can he? 42 Didn’t the scripture say that the Christ comes from David’s family and from Bethlehem, David’s village?” 43 So the crowd was divided over Jesus. 44 Some wanted to arrest him, but no one grabbed him.
45 The guards returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
46 The guards answered, “No one has ever spoken the way he does.”
47 The Pharisees replied, “Have you too been deceived? 48 Have any of the leaders believed in him? Has any Pharisee? 49 No, only this crowd, which doesn’t know the Law. And they are under God’s curse!”
50 Nicodemus, who was one of them and had come to Jesus earlier, said, 51 “Our Law doesn’t judge someone without first hearing him and learning what he is doing, does it?”
52 They answered him, “You are not from Galilee too, are you? Look it up and you will see that the prophet doesn’t come from Galilee.”
Pharisees test Jesus
53 They each went to their own homes,
Footnotes
- John 7:38 Or Whoever is thirsty should come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, just as the scriptures said, rivers of living water will flow out from within them.
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João 7
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Jesus vai à festa dos tabernáculos
7 Depois disto, Jesus ficou na Galileia, andando de terra em terra, pois queria conservar-se fora da Judeia, onde os anciãos tramavam a sua morte. 2 Em breve, porém, teria lugar a Festa dos Tabernáculos. 3 E os irmãos de Jesus disseram-lhe que fosse para a Judeia: “Vai para onde os teus discípulos possam ver os teus milagres. 4 Não podes tornar-te conhecido se te esconderes assim. Já que fazes estas coisas, mostra-te ao mundo!” 5 Pois os seus irmãos não acreditavam nele.
6 Jesus respondeu: “Ainda não chegou o meu tempo. Mas o vosso tempo sempre está presente. 7 O mundo não vos pode querer mal; mas a mim aborrece-me, porque o acuso do pecado e das obras más. 8 Vão, pois, que eu seguirei mais tarde, quando chegar a altura.” 9 E assim ficou na Galileia.
10 Todavia, depois de os seus irmãos terem partido para a celebração, foi também, embora em segredo, conservando-se longe dos olhares do público. 11 Os judeus procuravam-no na festa, perguntando se alguém o teria visto. 12 Entre a multidão, Jesus era assunto de muitas discussões, dizendo alguns: “É um homem de bem!” Enquanto que outros afirmavam: “Anda mas é a enganar o povo!” 13 Ninguém, aliás, tinha a coragem de falar abertamente acerca dele, com medo dos líderes.
Jesus ensina na festa
14 A meio da celebração religiosa, Jesus foi ao templo e começou a ensinar o povo. 15 Os anciãos ouviam-no com espanto. “Como pode saber tanta coisa, se não andou nas nossas escolas?”
16 Então Jesus disse-lhes: “O que vos ensino não são os meus pensamentos, mas os de Deus, que me enviou. 17 Se alguém quiser fazer a vontade de Deus, saberá de certeza se o meu ensino vem de Deus ou se é só meu. 18 Todo aquele que apresenta as suas próprias ideias procura ser louvado, mas quem se esforça por honrar quem o enviou é verdadeiro e está a agir com justiça. 19 Não vos deu Moisés a Lei? Contudo, nenhum de vocês cumpre a Lei. Porque procuram matar-me?”
20 A multidão respondeu: “Tens um demónio dentro de ti! Quem procura matar-te?”
21 “Trabalhei num sábado para curar um homem e ficaram espantados. 22 Mas vocês também trabalham ao sábado, quando é para cumprir a Lei de Moisés da circuncisão. Aliás, esta tradição da circuncisão é mais antiga do que a Lei mosaica, pois remonta a Abraão. 23 Se o dia de circuncidar os vossos filhos calha a um sábado, não hesitam em fazê-lo, para não quebrar a Lei de Moisés. Então porque serei eu condenado por curar um homem num sábado? 24 Não devem julgar segundo a aparência, mas segundo a verdadeira justiça!”
Será Jesus o Cristo?
25 Algumas das pessoas que viviam ali em Jerusalém diziam entre si: “Não é este o homem que querem matar? 26 Mas ele está aqui, a falar em público, e não lhe dizem nada. Será que os líderes descobriram que é, de facto, o Cristo? 27 Mas como pode ser? Sabemos onde ele nasceu. Quando o Cristo vier, limitar-se-á a aparecer sem que ninguém saiba donde vem.”
28 Então Jesus, enquanto ensinava no templo, disse: “Sim, conhecem-me e sabem onde nasci e fui criado, mas aquele que me enviou, que expressa a verdade, vocês não o conhecem. 29 Eu conheço-o, porque sou dele, e foi ele que me enviou.” 30 Procuraram prendê-lo, mas ninguém lhe pôs a mão, pois não chegara ainda a hora marcada por Deus.
31 Muitas pessoas, entre as multidões que acorriam ao templo, criam nele: “Quando o Cristo voltar, esperam que ele faça mais sinais do que aqueles que este tem já feito?”
32 Quando souberam o que a multidão pensava, os fariseus e os principais sacerdotes enviaram guardas para prendê-lo. Mas Jesus disse-lhes: 33 “Deverei estar convosco mais algum tempo e depois voltarei para aquele que me enviou. 34 Procurar-me-ão, mas não me acharão. Para onde eu vou não podem vocês ir.”
35 Os judeus ficaram intrigados com esta afirmação: “Para onde tenciona ele ir? Talvez pense ir aos judeus doutras terras ou ensinar os não-judeus. 36 O que quererá ele dizer com aquilo: ‘Procurar-me-ão, mas não me acharão. Para onde eu vou não podem vocês ir.’?”
37 No último dia, o momento mais importante da festa, Jesus clamou às multidões: “Se alguém tem sede venha a mim e beba. 38 Pois as Escrituras dizem que do mais íntimo de todo aquele que crê em mim sairão rios de água viva.” 39 Referia-se ao Espírito Santo que seria dado a todos quantos cressem nele. Mas o Espírito ainda não fora dado, porque Jesus não voltara ainda à sua glória no céu.
40 Quando a multidão o ouviu dizer isto, muitos entre eles afirmavam: “Não há dúvida de que este homem é o Profeta!” 41 Outros diziam: “É o Cristo!” E outros ainda: “Mas é impossível que o seja! Porventura virá o Cristo da Galileia? 42 Pois as Escrituras dizem claramente que o Cristo nascerá da família real de David, em Belém, a terra onde David nasceu.” 43 A multidão tinha opiniões diferentes acerca dele. 44 Havia quem quisesse que fosse preso, mas ninguém se atrevia a tocar-lhe.
A descrença dos líderes judaicos
45 A guarda do templo, que fora mandada para o prender, voltou para os principais sacerdotes e para os fariseus. “Porque não o trouxeram?”, perguntaram.
46 Os guardas responderam: “Nunca ninguém falou como este homem!”
47 “Também vocês foram desencaminhados?”, retorquiram os fariseus. 48 “Porventura algum dos líderes judaicos ou dos fariseus creu nele? 49 A multidão ignorante da Lei, essa sim, é gente maldita!”
50 Então Nicodemos, que era um deles, aquele que anteriormente tivera uma entrevista secreta com Jesus, falou: 51 “Será legal condenar um homem antes de ser julgado?”
52 E responderam: “Também tu és um desses galileus? Investiga e verás que da Galileia nunca veio qualquer profeta!”
53 E foram todos para casa.
John 7
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John 7
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Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles
7 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want[a] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders(A) there were looking for a way to kill him.(B) 2 But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles(C) was near, 3 Jesus’ brothers(D) said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. 4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.(E)
6 Therefore Jesus told them, “My time(F) is not yet here; for you any time will do. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me(G) because I testify that its works are evil.(H) 8 You go to the festival. I am not[b] going up to this festival, because my time(I) has not yet fully come.” 9 After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.
10 However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. 11 Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus(J) and asking, “Where is he?”
12 Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”
Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.”(K) 13 But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.(L)
Jesus Teaches at the Festival
14 Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.(M) 15 The Jews(N) there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning(O) without having been taught?”(P)
16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.(Q) 17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out(R) whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory,(S) but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law?(T) Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”(U)
20 “You are demon-possessed,”(V) the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
21 Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle,(W) and you are all amazed. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision(X) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),(Y) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 23 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? 24 Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”(Z)
Division Over Who Jesus Is
25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?(AA) 26 Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities(AB) really concluded that he is the Messiah?(AC) 27 But we know where this man is from;(AD) when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts,(AE) cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from.(AF) I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true.(AG) You do not know him, 29 but I know him(AH) because I am from him and he sent me.”(AI)
30 At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him,(AJ) because his hour had not yet come.(AK) 31 Still, many in the crowd believed in him.(AL) They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs(AM) than this man?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
33 Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time,(AN) and then I am going to the one who sent me.(AO) 34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”(AP)
35 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(AQ) among the Greeks,(AR) and teach the Greeks? 36 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’?”(AS)
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival,(AT) Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.(AU) 38 Whoever believes(AV) in me, as Scripture has said,(AW) rivers of living water(AX) will flow from within them.”[c](AY) 39 By this he meant the Spirit,(AZ) whom those who believed in him were later to receive.(BA) Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.(BB)
40 On hearing his words, some of the people said, “Surely this man is the Prophet.”(BC)
41 Others said, “He is the Messiah.”
Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?(BD) 42 Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants(BE) and from Bethlehem,(BF) the town where David lived?” 43 Thus the people were divided(BG) because of Jesus. 44 Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.(BH)
Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46 “No one ever spoke the way this man does,”(BI) the guards replied.
47 “You mean he has deceived you also?”(BJ) the Pharisees retorted. 48 “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?(BK) 49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”
50 Nicodemus,(BL) who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, 51 “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”(BM)
[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.]
53 Then they all went home,
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