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The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John
Chapter 7
Christ goes up to the feast of the tabernacles. He teaches in the temple.
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After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. |
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Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand. |
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And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost. |
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For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world. |
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For neither did his brethren believe in him. |
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Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. |
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The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil, |
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Go you up to this festival day: but I go not up to this festival day, because my time is not accomplished. |
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When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee. |
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But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret. |
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The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day and said: Where is he? |
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And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people. |
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Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews. |
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Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. |
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And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned? |
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Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. |
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If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. |
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He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him. |
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Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? |
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Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee? |
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Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder. |
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Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man. |
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If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day? |
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Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment. |
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Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? |
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And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? |
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But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth, whence he is. |
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Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. |
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I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me. |
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They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. |
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But of the people many believed in him and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles than this man doth? |
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The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him. |
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Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me. |
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You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come. |
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The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles? |
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What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come? |
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And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. |
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He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. |
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Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. |
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Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed. |
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Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee? |
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Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David and from Bethlehem the town where David was? |
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So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. |
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And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him. |
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The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? |
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The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man. |
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The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? |
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Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? |
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But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed. |
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Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one of them): |
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Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know what he doth? |
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They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not. |
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And every man returned to his own house. |
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