John 7:11-36

Christian Standard Bible

¹¹ The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good^(A) man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving^(B) the people.” ¹³ Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple^(C) and began to teach. ¹⁵ Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned,^(D) since he hasn’t been trained?”

¹⁶ Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.^{(E) 17} If anyone wants to do his will,^(F) he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. ¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory;^(G) but he who seeks the glory^(H) of the one who sent him is true,^(I) and there is no unrighteousness in him.^{(J) 19} Didn’t Moses^(K) give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law.^(L) Why are you trying to kill me?”

²⁰ “You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹ “I performed one work,^(M) and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered. ²² “This is why Moses has given you circumcision^(N) —not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers^(O) —and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.^{(P) 23} If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath^(Q) so that the law of Moses^(R) won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ Stop judging^(S) according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

The Identity of the Messiah

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem^(T) were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? ²⁶ Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities^(U) know he is the Messiah?^{(V) 27} But we know where this man is from.^(W) When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.”

²⁸ As he was teaching in the temple,^(X) Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me^(Y) is true. You don’t know him;^{(Z) 29} I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”^(AA)

³⁰ Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done,^(AB) will he?” ³² The Pharisees^(AC) heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests^(AD) and the Pharisees sent servants^[a] to arrest him.

³³ Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time.^(AE) Then I’m going to the one who sent me.^{(AF) 34} You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”^(AG)

³⁵ Then the Jews^(AH) said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed^[b](AI) among the Greeks^(AJ) and teach the Greeks, does he? ³⁶ What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’^(AK)?”