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John 7
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John 7
New International Version
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,
Gjoni 7
Albanian Bible
Gjoni 7
Albanian Bible
7 Pas këtyre gjërave, Jezusi përshkoi Galilenë, sepse nuk donte të endej nëpër Jude, nga që Judenjtë kërkonin ta vrisnin.
2 Por festa e Judenjve, ajo e Tabernakujve ishte afër.
3 Prandaj vëllezërit e tij i thanë: “Nisu prej këndej dhe shko në Jude, që edhe dishepujt e tu t’i shohin veprat që ti bën.
4 Askush në fakt nuk bën asgjë në fshehtësi kur kërkon të nijhet botërisht; kur ti do të bësh gjëra të tilla, tregohu botës!.”
5 Në fakt as vëllezërit e tij nuk besonin në të.
6 Atëherë Jezusi u tha aytre: “Koha ime nuk ka ardhur ende; por koha juaj është gjithmonë gati.
7 Bota nuk mund t’ju urrejë juve, por më urren mua sepse unë dëshmoj për të se veprat e saj janë të mbrapshta.
8 Ngjituni ju në këtë festë; unë nuk po ngjitem ende në këtë festë, sepse koha ime ende nuk është plotësuar.”
9 Dhe si u tha atyre këto gjëra, mbeti në Galile.
10 Mbasi vëllezërit e tij u ngjitën në festë, atëherë edhe ai u ngjit atje, jo haptas, por si fshehurazi.
11 Judenjtë, pra, e kërkonin gjatë festës dhe thoshnin: “Ku është ai?.”
12 Në turmë pëshpëritej shumë për të; disa thoshnin: “Ai është i mirë!.” Të tjerë thoshnin: “Jo, madje ai e mashtron popullin.”
13 Por askush nuk fliste haptas për të, nga druajtja e Judenjve.
14 Por, aty nga mesi i festës, Jezusi u ngjit në tempull dhe mësonte.
15 Dhe Judenjtë mrrekulloheshin duke thënë: “Si i ditka ky shkronjat, pa pasur studiuar?.”
16 Jezusi atëherë iu përgjigj atyre dhe tha: “Doktrina ime nuk është imja, por e atij që më ka dërguar.
17 Në qoftë se dikush don të bëjë vullnetin e tij, do ta njohë nëse kjo doktrinë vjen nga Perëndia apo që unë flas nga vetja ime.
18 Kush flet nga vetja e tij kërkon lavdinë e vet, kurse ai që kërkon lavdinë e atij që e ka dërguar është i vërtetë, dhe në të nuk ka padrejtësi.
19 A nuk jua ka dhënë Moisiu ligjin? E pra, asnjë nga ju nuk e vë në praktikë ligjin. Pse kërkoni të më vritni?.”
20 Turma u përgjigj dhe tha: “Ti ke një demon; kush kërkon të të vrasë?.”
21 Jezusi u përgjigj dhe u tha: “Unë bëra një vepër dhe ju të gjithë jeni të mreku-lluar.
22 Prandaj Moisiu iu dha rrethprerjen (ajo nuk është prej Moisiut, por prej etërve); dhe ju e rrethpritni një njeri të shtunën.
23 Në qoftë se një njeri merr rrethprerjen të shtunën, që të mos shkelet ligji i Moisiut, ju zemëroheni kundër meje sepse shërova tërësishtë një njeri të shtunën?
24 Mos gjykoni sipas pamjes së jashtme, por gjykoni sipas drejtësisë!”
25 Atëherë disa nga Jeruzalemi thanë: “A nuk është ky ai që kërkojnë ta vrasin?
26 E megjithatë ja, ai po flet lirisht dhe nuk i thonë asgjë; mos kanë njohur krerët me të vërtetë se ai është Krishti?
27 Por ne e dimë se nga është ai; ndërsa kur të vijë Krishti, askush nuk do ta dijë se nga është.”
28 Atëherë Jezusi, duke mësuar në tempull, thirri dhe tha: “Ju më njihni dhe e dini se nga jam, megjithatë unë s’kam ardhur nga vetja, por ai që më ka dërguar është i vërtetë dhe ju nuk e njihni.
29 Por unë atë e njoh, sepse jam nga ai dhe ai më dërgoi.”
30 Prandaj ata kërkonin ta kapnin, por askush nuk vuri dorë mbi të, sepse ora e tij s’kishte ardhur akoma.
31 Por shumë veta nga turma besuan në të dhe thoshnin: “Kur të vijë Krishti, a do të bëjë më shumë shenja se këto që ka bërë ky?.”
32 Farisenjtë dëgjuan turmën duke pëshpëritur këto gjëra për të; prandaj farisenjtë dhe krerët e priftërinjve dërguan roje për ta kapur.
33 Atëherë Jezusi u tha atyre: “Unë jam edhe për pak kohë me ju, pastaj do të shkoj tek ai që më ka dërguar.
34 Do të më kërkoni e nuk do të më gjeni; dhe atje ku do të jem unë, ju nuk do të mund të vini.”
35 Prandaj Judenjtë thonin në mes tyre: “Ku do të shkojë ky që ne nuk do ta gjejmë? Mos do të shkojë tek ata që janë shpërndarë midis Grekëve, dhe të mësojë Grekët?
36 Çfarë deshi të thoshte kur tha: "Ju do të më kërkoni dhe nuk do të më gjeni"; dhe: "Atje ku do të jem unë, ju nuk mund të vini"?.”
37 Ditën e fundit, në ditën e madhe të festës, Jezusi u çua në këmbë dhe thirri duke thënë: “Nëse dikush ka etje, le të vijë tek unë e të pijë.
38 Ai që beson në mua, siç ka thënë Shkrimi, nga brendësia e tij do të burojnë lumenj uji të gjallë.”
39 Por këtë ai e tha për Frymën, që do të merrnin ata që do të besonin në të; sepse Fryma e Shenjtë në fakt nuk ishte dhënë ende, sepse Jezusi ende nuk ishte përlëvduar.
40 Shumë veta nga turma, kur i dëgjuan këto fjalë, thoshnin: “Ky është me të vërtetë Profeti!.”
41 Të tjerë thoshnin: “Ky është Krishti.” Kurse të tjerë thoshnin: “Vallë nga Galilea vjen Krishti?
42 A nuk thotë Shkrimi se Krishti vjen nga pasardhja e Davidit dhe nga Bethlehemi, fshati ku jetonte Davidi?.”
43 Kështu pati përçarje në turmë për shkak të tij.
44 Dhe disa prej tyre donin ta kapnin, por askush nuk vuri dorë mbi të.
45 Atëherë rojet u kthyen te krerët e priftërinjve dhe te farisenjtë, dhe këta u thanë atyre: “Pse nuk e sollët?.”
46 Rojet u përgjigjen: “Asnjeri nuk ka folur kurrë si ai njeri.”
47 Prandaj farisenjtë iu përgjigjën atyre: “Mos u gënjyet edhe ju?
48 Mos vallë ndonjë nga krerët ose nga farisenjtë besoi në të?
49 Por kjo turmë, që nuk e njeh ligjin, është e mallkuar.”
50 Nikodemi, një prej tyre, i cili natën kishte shkuar te Jezusi, u tha atyre:
51 “Ligji ynë dënon vallë një njeri para se ta ketë dëgjuar dhe ta dijë ç’ka bërë ai?.”
52 Ata u përgjigjën dhe i thanë: “Mos je edhe ti nga Galilea? Hulumto Shkrimet dhe do të shohësh se nga Galilea s’ka dalë kurrë profet.”
53 Dhe secili u kthye në shtëpinë e vet.
Yochanan 7
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Yochanan 7
Orthodox Jewish Bible
7 And after these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach itinerated in the Galil, for he was not wanting to move about in Yehudah, because those of Yehudah were seeking to kill him.
2 Now the Chag of Sukkot was near. [VAYIKRA 23:34; DEVARIM 16:16]
3 His achim then said to him, Leave here and go away into the land of Yehudah, that also your talmidim will see your ma’asim which you do.
4 For no one who seeks public notice does anything besod (secretly). If these things you do, then manifest yourself to HaOlam.
5 For not even the achim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach were believing in him. [TEHILLIM 69:8]
6 Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, My sha’ah has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 The Olam Hazeh is not capable of sin’ah (hatred) toward you, but the Olam Hazeh hates me, and for this reason: I give solemn edut (testimony) about it because the ma’asim of the Olam Hazeh are ra’'im (evil).
8 You make aliyah leregel up to the Chag (Feast). I am not going up to this Chag (Feast), because my time has not yet been fulfilled.
9 And having said these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach remained in the Galil.
10 But when the achim of him made aliyah leregel to the Chag (Feast), then also Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up [Yochanan 5:30] not publicly but besod (secretly).
11 Then those of Yehudah were seeking Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in the Chag (Feast) and were saying, Where is that man?
12 And there was much telunnah (murmuring) about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach among the multitudes. Some were saying, He is tov (good), but others were saying, Lo (no), he deceives the multitude.
13 No one, however, was speaking openly about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach because of the fear of those of Yehudah.
14 But around the middle period of the Chag (Feast), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to the Beis Hamikdash and was saying shiurim (teaching torah).
15 Therefore, those of Yehudah were marveling, saying, How has this man binah (understanding) of a Yeshiva yode’a sefer (scholar), not having learned?
16 Therefore, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, My Torah (teaching) is not mine but of the One having sent me.
17 If anyone wants to do the ratzon Hashem, he will have da’as about my Torah, whether it is of Hashem or I speak only from myself. [TEHILLIM 25:14; 92:16; BAMIDBAR 16:28]
18 The one speaking from himself seeks his own kavod (glory), but he who is seeking the kavod of the One having sent him, this one is ne’eman and there is no avlah (injustice) in him.
19 Has not Moshe given you the Torah? None of you is able to be shomer chukkat Torah. Why are you seeking to kill me? [DEVARIM 32:46; MISHLE 20:9; KOHELET 7:20; YESHAYAH 53:6]
20 The multitude said, You have a shed (demon). Who is seeking to kill you?
21 In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Of the Pe’ulot of Hashem, I accomplished echad, one pe’ulah, and everyone marvels.
22 Moshe has given you bris milah not that bris milah is of Moshe, but it is of the Avot, and on a Shabbos you perpetually perform bris milah. [BERESHIS 17:10-14; 21:4; VAYIKRA 12:3]
23 If a man receives bris milah on Shabbos and lo tufar Torat Moshe (the Torah of Moses may not be broken, BERESHIS 17:14) are you angry with me because I gave a man refu’ah shleimah on Shabbos?
24 Do not judge according to appearance but judge with mishpat tzedek. [ZECHARYAH 7:9; SHMUEL ALEF 16:7; YESHAYAH 11:3 4; VAYIKRA 19:15]
25 Therefore, some of the ones of Yerushalayim were saying, Is it not this man whom they are seeking to kill?
26 And, hinei, he speaks publicly and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the manhigim (the gedolim of Judaism) have da’as that this man is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach?
27 But this man, we have da’as where he is from; but the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, whenever he comes, no one has da’as where he is from.
28 Therefore, in the Beis Hamikdash while teaching, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out, saying, You have da’as of me, and you have da’as of where I am from. I have not come on my own, but the One Who sent me is ne’eman. He is the One of Whom you do not have da’as.
29 I have da’as of Him, because from Him Ani Hu, and He is the One Who sent me.
30 Therefore, they were seeking to arrest him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his sha’ah (hour, time) had not yet come.
31 From the multitude, however, many put their emunah, their bitachon, in him, and were saying, The Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, whenever he comes, surely he will not do more otot (miraculous signs) than the things which this man did?
32 The Perushim heard the telunnah (murmuring) of these things from the multitude, the talk about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and they sent the Rashei Hakohanim and the mesharetim of the Perushim that they might arrest him.
33 Therefore, he said, Yet a little time I am with you and I go away to the One having sent me.
34 You will seek me and not find me and where Ani Hu you are not able to come.
35 Therefore, those of Yehudah said to themselves, Where is this man about to journey that we will not find him? Surely he is not about to sojourn to the Golus of the Yevanim (Greeks) to teach the Yevanim? [MISHLE 1:28]
36 What is this dvar which he said, You will seek me and will not find me and where Ani Hu, you are not able to come?
37 Now on the last day of the Chag, Hoshana Rabbah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink. [Lv 23:36; Isa 55:1; 12:3; 49:10]
38 The one with emunah in me, as the Kitvei Hakodesh said, ‘Out of the midst of him, rivers of MAYIM CHAYYIM [Zech 14:8] will flow.’ [Prov 18:4; Isa 44:3; 58:11; 43:19f, Ezek 47:1-12; Joel 4:18; Song 4:15].
39 But this he said about the Ruach Hakodesh which the ones having emunah (faith) in him were about to receive, for the Ruach Hakodesh had not yet been given, because he had not yet received kavod. [YOEL 2:28 (3:1)]
40 Some of the multitude, therefore, having heard these dvarim were saying, This man is beemes the Navi.
41 Others were saying, This man is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. But some were saying, Surely the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes not from the Galil, does he?
42 Has not the Kitvei Hakodesh said that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is from the zera Dovid and from Beit-Lechem, the shtetl where Dovid lived? [2Sm 7:12; Psa 89:3-4; Mic 5:1(2); Jer 23:5]
43 A machloket (controversy), therefore, occurred among the multitude because of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
44 And some of them were wanting to arrest him, but no one laid his hands on him.
45 Then the avadim of the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim came and the Rashei Hakohanim and Perushim said to them, Why did you not bring him?
46 In reply, the avadim said, Never Ish spoke like this Ish.
47 In reply, therefore, the Perushim said, Surely not you also have been deceived?
48 Has any of the manhigim put their emunah (faith) in him, or any of the Perushim [T.N.but cf Yn 7:50; 19:39]?
49 But this am ha’aretz crowd has no da’as of Torah and is cursed. [DEVARIM 27:26]
50 Rav Nakdimon, the one having come to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach earlier, being one of their own, says to them,
51 Surely Torateinu (Our Torah) judges not the Man unless it hears first from the Man himself and has da’as of what he does, does it? [Dt 1:16; 17:6; Ex 23:1]
52 They answered and said to Rav Nakdimon, Surely not you also are from the Galil, are you? Search [the Kitvei Hakodesh] and see that from the Galil a Navi does not arise. [T.N. but cf 2Kgs 14:25; Isa 9:1,2]
53 And they went each one to his bais.
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