John 7:19-36

English Standard Version

¹⁹^(A)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(B)Why do you seek to kill me?” ²⁰The crowd answered, ^(C)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” ²¹Jesus answered them, “I did ^(D)one work, and you all marvel at it. ²²^(E)Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(F)from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^(G)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ²⁴^(H)Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(I)they seek to kill? ²⁶And here he is, ^(J)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(K)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷But ^(L)we know ^(M)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(N)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸So Jesus proclaimed, ^(O)as he taught in the temple, ^(P)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(Q)I have not come of my own accord. ^(R)He who sent me is true, ^(S)and him you do not know. ²⁹^(T)I know him, for I come ^(U)from him, and ^(V)he sent me.” ³⁰^(W)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(X)no one laid a hand on him, ^(Y)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹Yet ^(Z)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(AA)“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(AB)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(AC)officers to arrest him. ³³Jesus then said, ^(AD)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(AE)I am going to him who sent me. ³⁴^(AF)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(AG)Does he intend to go to ^(AH)the Dispersion among ^(AI)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What does he mean by saying, ^(AJ)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”