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Chapter 7

The Feast of Tabernacles. [a]After this, Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7–8 These chapters contain events about the feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth, Ingathering: Ex 23:16; Tents, Booths: Dt 16:13–16), with its symbols of booths (originally built to shelter harvesters), rain (water from Siloam poured on the temple altar), and lights (illumination of the four torches in the Court of the Women). They continue the theme of the replacement of feasts (Passover, Jn 2:13; 6:4; Hanukkah, Jn 10:22; Pentecost, Jn 5:1), here accomplished by Jesus as the Living Water. These chapters comprise seven miscellaneous controversies and dialogues. There is a literary inclusion with Jesus in hiding in Jn 7:4, 10; 8:59. There are frequent references to attempts on his life: Jn 7:1, 13, 19, 25, 30, 32, 44; 8:37, 40, 59.

Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

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)

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  1. John 7:1 Some manuscripts not have authority

25 So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?

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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?(A)

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37 I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are trying to kill me, because my word has no room among you.

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37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,(A) because you have no room for my word.

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40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this.

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40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me,(A) a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.(B) Abraham did not do such things.

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33 The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.”(A)

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33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”(A)

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36 can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated[a] and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?(A)

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  1. 10:36 Consecrated: this may be a reference to the rededicated altar at the Hanukkah feast; see note on Jn 10:22.

36 what about the one whom the Father set apart(A) as his very own(B) and sent into the world?(C) Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?(D)

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28 [a]You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’(A) If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

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  1. 14:28 The Father is greater than I: because he sent, gave, etc., and Jesus is “a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God” (Jn 8:40).

28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’(A) If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,(B) for the Father is greater than I.(C)

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God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know[a] good and evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.(A)

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  1. 3:5 Like gods, who know: or “like God who knows.”

“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,(A) knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable(B) for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,(C) who was with her, and he ate it.(D)

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16 He judges us debased;
    he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.
He calls blest the destiny of the righteous
    and boasts that God is his Father.(A)

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'Wisdom 2:16' not found for the version: New International Version.

(A)and they consulted together to arrest Jesus by treachery and put him to death.

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and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.(A)

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(A)who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so as to seat himself in the temple of God,[a] claiming that he is a god—

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  1. 2:4 Seat himself in the temple of God: a reflection of the language in Dn 7:23–25; 8:9–12; 9:27; 11:36–37; 12:11 about the attempt of Antiochus IV Epiphanes to set up a statue of Zeus in the Jerusalem temple and possibly of the Roman emperor Caligula to do a similar thing (Mk 13:14). Here the imagery suggests an attempt to install someone in the place of God, claiming that he is a god (cf. Ez 28:2). Usually, it is the Jerusalem temple that is assumed to be meant; on the alternative view sketched above (see note on 2 Thes 2:1–17), the temple refers to the Christian community.

He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God(A) or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.(B)

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