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John 7
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John 7
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7 After this, Jesus went to Galilee, going from village to village, for he wanted to stay out of Judea where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death. 2 But soon it was time for the Tabernacle Ceremonies, one of the annual Jewish holidays, 3 and Jesus’ brothers urged him to go to Judea for the celebration.
“Go where more people can see your miracles!” they scoffed. 4 “You can’t be famous when you hide like this! If you’re so great, prove it to the world!” 5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
6 Jesus replied, “It is not the right time for me to go now. But you can go anytime and it will make no difference, 7 for the world can’t hate you; but it does hate me, because I accuse it of sin and evil. 8 You go on, and I’ll come later[a] when it is the right time.” 9 So he remained in Galilee.
10 But after his brothers had left for the celebration, then he went too, though secretly, staying out of the public eye. 11 The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the celebration and kept asking if anyone had seen him. 12 There was a lot of discussion about him among the crowds. Some said, “He’s a wonderful man,” while others said, “No, he’s duping the public.” 13 But no one had the courage to speak out for him in public for fear of reprisals from the Jewish leaders.
14 Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and preached openly. 15 The Jewish leaders were surprised when they heard him. “How can he know so much when he’s never been to our schools?” they asked.
16 So Jesus told them, “I’m not teaching you my own thoughts, but those of God who sent me. 17 If any of you really determines to do God’s will, then you will certainly know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own. 18 Anyone presenting his own ideas is looking for praise for himself, but anyone seeking to honor the one who sent him is a good and true person. 19
20 The crowd replied, “You’re out of your mind! Who’s trying to kill you?”
21-23 Jesus replied, “I worked on the Sabbath by healing a man, and you were surprised. But you work on the Sabbath, too, whenever you obey Moses’ law of circumcision (actually, however, this tradition of circumcision is older than the Mosaic law); for if the correct time for circumcising your children falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it, as you should. So why should I be condemned for making a man completely well on the Sabbath? 24 Think this through and you will see that I am right.”
25 Some of the people who lived there in Jerusalem said among themselves, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 But here he is preaching in public, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that our leaders have learned, after all, that he really is the Messiah? 27 But how could he be? For we know where this man was born; when Christ comes, he will just appear and no one will know where he comes from.”
28 So Jesus, in a sermon in the Temple, called out, “Yes, you know me and where I was born and raised, but I am the representative of one you don’t know, and he is Truth. 29 I know him because I was with him, and he sent me to you.”
30 Then the Jewish leaders sought to arrest him; but no hand was laid on him, for God’s time had not yet come.
31 Many among the crowds at the Temple believed on him. “After all,” they said, “what miracles do you expect the Messiah to do that this man hasn’t done?”
32 When the Pharisees heard that the crowds were in this mood, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Jesus. 33 But Jesus told them, “Not yet![b] I am to be here a little longer. Then I shall return to the one who sent me. 34 You will search for me but not find me. And you won’t be able to come where I am!”
35 The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. “Where is he planning to go?” they asked. “Maybe he is thinking of leaving the country and going as a missionary among the Jews in other lands, or maybe even to the Gentiles! 36 What does he mean about our looking for him and not being able to find him, and, ‘You won’t be able to come where I am’?”
37 On the last day, the climax of the holidays, Jesus shouted to the crowds, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 For the Scriptures declare that rivers of living water shall flow from the inmost being of anyone who believes in me.” 39 (He was speaking of the Holy Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him; but the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet returned to his glory in heaven.)
40 When the crowds heard him say this, some of them declared, “This man surely is the prophet who will come just before the Messiah.” 41-42 Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others, “But he can’t be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee? For the Scriptures clearly state that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David, in Bethlehem, the village where David was born.” 43 So the crowd was divided about him. 44 And some wanted him arrested, but no one touched him.
45 The Temple police who had been sent to arrest him returned to the chief priests and Pharisees. “Why didn’t you bring him in?” they demanded.
46 “He says such wonderful things!” they mumbled. “We’ve never heard anything like it.”
47 “So you also have been led astray?” the Pharisees mocked. 48 “Is there a single one of us Jewish rulers or Pharisees who believes he is the Messiah? 49 These stupid crowds do, yes; but what do they know about it? A curse upon them anyway!”[c]
50 Then Nicodemus spoke up. (Remember him? He was the Jewish leader who came secretly to interview Jesus.) 51 “Is it legal to convict a man before he is even tried?” he asked.
52 They replied, “Are you a wretched Galilean too? Search the Scriptures and see for yourself—no prophets will come from Galilee!”
53 [d] Then the meeting broke up and everybody went home.
Footnotes
Jan 7
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Jan 7
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Jezi avèk frè li yo
7 Apre sa, Jezi te fè laviwonn teritwa Galile a. Li pa t vle ale nan peyi Jide, paske chèf Jwif yo t ap chache touye li. 2 Se te moman Jwif yo te pral fete Fèt Tant yo. 3 Se poutèt sa frè l yo te di l: “Ou ta sipoze pati ale Jide nan fèt la. Konsa, tout disip ou yo ta wè mirak ou ap fè yo. 4 Si ou vle anpil moun konnen ou, ou pa dwe ap kache sa ou fè. Si ou kapab fè bagay ekstraòdinè sa yo, kite tout moun wè yo.” 5 Frè Jezi yo te pale kon sa paske menm yo menm yo pa t kwè nan li.
6 Jezi di yo: “Mwen poko pare pou m al Jerizalèm, lè m poko rive. Men, pou nou menm, nou pa gen okenn lè espesyal, tout lè se menm pou nou. 7 Lemonn pa kapab rayi nou. Men lemonn rayi mwen, paske m ap di moun nan lemonn zèv yo pa bon. 8 Alò nou mèt ale. Mwen pa prale kounye a, paske tan pa m nan poko rive.” 9 Lè Jezi fin di sa, li rete nan peyi Galile.
10 Alò frè l yo pati y al nan fèt la. Lè yo fin pati, Jezi pati tou, men l te ale an sekrè. 11 Lidè Jwif yo t ap chache li nan fèt la. Yo t ap di: “Kote nonm nan?”
12 Te gen anpil moun la. Anpil nan yo t ap pale an sekrè antre yo de Jezi. Kèk nan yo te di: “Se yon nonm de byen li ye.” Men kèk lòt t ap di: “Se pa vre, mesye ap twonpe moun yo.” 13 Men pa t gen yon moun ki te brav ase pou l ta pale de li pou tout moun tande. Yo te pè lidè Jwif yo.
Jezi ap anseye nan Jerizalèm
14 Peryòd fèt la te deja nan mwatye konsa, Jezi ale nan tanp lan epi Li te kòmanse anseye. 15 Lidè Jwif yo te sezi epi yo di: “Kòman nonm sa a fè konnen tout bagay sa yo? Li pa te janm etidye menm jan ak nou!”
16 Jezi reponn: “Sa m ap anseye pa soti nan mwen menm. Ansèyman mwen soti nan moun ki voye m nan. 17 Moun ki vle fè sa Bondye vle reyèlman, y ap kapab konnen si ansèyman sa a soti nan Bondye oubyen si li soti nan mwen menm sèlman. 18 Nenpòt moun k ap anseye pwòp panse pa l, l ap chache glwa pou pwòp tèt li. Men yon moun k ap chache glwa pou moun ki voye li, yo kapab kwè l. Yon moun ki aji kon sa p ap nan manti. 19 Moyiz te ban nou Lalwa, pa vre? Men nou pa obeyi Lalwa a. Si nou obeyi Lalwa, pou kisa n ap chache touye m?”
20 Moun yo reponn: “Yon demon fè w fou! Nou p ap eseye touye w pyès.”
21 Jezi di yo: “Mwen te fè yon mirak yon jou saba, epi nou tout te choke. 22 Nou obeyi Lalwa Moyiz te bay sou sikonsizyon an epi pafwa nou fè l nan jou repo a. (Men an reyalite se pa Moyiz ki ban nou sikonsizyon an. Li soti depi zansèt nou yo ki t ap viv anvan Moyiz.) Wi, byen souvan nou sikonsi ti bebe gason yo nan jou repo a. 23 Konsa, nou travay nan jou repo a! Nou retire yon ti moso po nan sèks yon bebe jou repo a! Nou fè sa pou n evite vyole Lalwa Moyiz la! Alò, pou kisa nou leve kont mwen poutèt mwen geri yon nonm totalman nan jou repo a? 24 Ann sispann jije sou laparans. Ann jije yon fason ki dwat.”
Moun yo ap mande si se Jezi ki Kris la
25 Kèk nan moun Jerizalèm yo di: “Men nonm y ap eseye wè si yo ta touye a. 26 Men l ap anseye kote tout moun kapab ni wè li ni tande li. Epi pèsonn pa eseye anpeche l fè sa. Petèt lidè yo te deside se li ki Mesi a vrèman. 27 Men, lè vrè Mesi va vini, pèsonn p ap konnen kote l soti. Nonm sa a, nou konnen moun ki kote li ye.”
28 Jezi te kontinye ap anseye kote l te ye nan tanp lan, li di byen fò: “Èske nou konnen ki moun ye ak kote mwen soti vrèman? Mwen vini isit la, men se pa ak pwòp desizyon mwen. Moun ki voye m an merite tout konfyans nou. Men nou pa konnen li. 29 Mwen konnen l paske se kote l mwen soti, epi se li menm ki voye m.”
30 Lè Jezi di sa, moun yo t ap eseye arete li. Men pa t gen yon moun ki te kapab mete men sou Li. Paske jou li pa t ko rive. 31 Men te gen anpil nan moun sa yo ki te kwè nan Jezi. Yo di: “Nonm sa a tèlman fè mirak. Lè Mesi a va vini, èske l ap ka fè plis mirak pase nonm sa a?”
Lidè Jwif yo ap chache arete Jezi
32 Farizyen yo te tande sa moun yo t ap di sou Jezi. Alò, chèf prèt yo mete ak Farizyen yo, yo voye kèk nan moun ki t ap fè polis nan tanp lan pou arete li. 33 Alò Jezi di: “Mwen avèk nou pou yon ti kras tan ankò. Epi m ap retounen jwenn moun ki te voye m nan. 34 Nou va chache m, men nou p ap jwenn mwen. Epi nou p ap kapab vini kote m prale a non plis.”
35 Jwif yo t ap di antre yo: “Ki kote pou nonm sa a ale pou nou pa jwen li? Èske se nan vil Grèk yo li pral abite, kote moun pa nou yo ye? Èske li pral anseye Grèk yo laba a?” 36 Yo t ap mande youn lòt, “Ki sa Jezi te vle di lè l di: Nou va chache m, men nou p ap jwenn mwen, epi Nou p ap kapab ale kote m prale a?”
Jezi pale osijè Sentespri a
37 Dènye jou fèt la te rive. Se jou pi ki enpòtan an. Nan Jou sa a, Jezi kanpe epi li di byen fò: “Nenpòt moun ki swaf kapab vini jwenn mwen, epi nenpòt moun ki kwè nan mwen va bwè! 38 Si yon moun kwè nan mwen, Bib la di sous dlo va koule soti nan kè li.” 39 Se te de Lespri Bondye a Jezi t ap pale. Moun ki te kwè nan Jezi ta gen pou resevwa Lespri Bondye a nan yon ti kras tan. Men nan lè sa a, yo pa t ko genyen Lespri Bondye, paske Jezi pa t ko monte pou l antre nan glwa li.
Moun ap fè diskisyon sou Jezi
40 Lè moun yo te tande sa Jezi di yo, gen nan yo ki di: “Nonm sa a se Pwofèt[a] la vre.”
41 Te gen lòt moun ki t ap di: “Se li menm ki Kris la.”
Te gen lòt ankò ki t ap di: “Kris la p ap soti nan Galile, pa vre? 42 Bib la di Kris la ap soti nan fanmi David. Epi yo di se Bètleyèm l ap soti, lavil kote David te rete a.” 43 Konsa tout moun pa te gen menm opinyon sou Jezi. 44 Kèk nan yo te vle arete Li. Men pèsonn pa t eseye fè sa.
Kèk lidè Jwif derefize kwè
45 Polis tanp lan te retounen ale jwenn chèf prèt ak Farizyen yo. Prèt yo ak Farizyen yo te mande yo: “Pou kisa nou pa mennen Jezi vini?”
46 Polis tanp lan te reponn: “Nou pa janm tande moun pale menm jan ak nonm sa a.”
47 Farizyen yo reponn: “Alò, nonm nan pran tèt nou tou! 48 Nou pa wè youn pami lidè yo, ni pami nou menm Farizyen ki kwè nan Li, pa vre? 49 Sèl moun ki kwè nan li se foul la, ki se yon bann moun modi, paske yo pa konnen anyen nan Lalwa a!”
50 Men, Nikodèm te la nan gwoup sa a. Se li menm ki t ale wè Jezi anvan sa.[b] Li te di: 51 “Èske Lalwa nou an pèmèt nou jije moun anvan nou tande yo, pou nou chache konnen kisa yo fè?” 52 Lidè Jwif yo reponn: “Gen lè se moun Galile ou ye tou! Etidye Bib la. Èske ou ap jwenn okenn pwofèt[c] ki soti Galile?”
Yon fanm yo kenbe nan adiltè
53 [d] Apre sa, yo tout pati ale lakay yo.
Footnotes
- 7:40 Pwofèt Li pwobab sa vle di pwofèt Bondye te di Moyiz li t ap voye a. Gade nan Det 18:15-19.
- 7:50 Se li menm … anvan sa Se istwa ki rakonte Nikodèm t al pale ak Jezi nan Jan 3:1-21.
- 7:52 pwofèt De nan ansyen kopi Grèk yo genyen “Pwofèt la”, sa ta vle di “pwofèt tankou Moyiz la” ki pale nan Det 18:15. Nan Trav 3:22; 7:37 tout moun konprann sa vle di Mesi a, menm jan ak nan vèsè 40 ki anvan sa.
- 7:53 Kopi ki pi ansyen epi ki pi bon yo pa genyen 7:5–8:11.
John 7
New International Version
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,
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