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The Gospel According to Saint John, Chapter 7
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After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk
in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
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His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into
Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
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For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself
seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to
the world.
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For neither did his brethren believe in him.
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Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time
is alway ready.
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The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of
it, that the works thereof are evil.
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Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my
time is not yet full come.
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When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
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But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the
feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
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Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
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And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for
some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the
people.
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Howbeit no man spake 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 marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man 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 his will, 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 his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him.
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Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the
law? Why go ye about to kill me?
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The people answered and said,
Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
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Jesus answered
and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
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Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of
Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a
man.
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If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of
Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a
man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
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Judge not according to
the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they
seek to kill?
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But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing
unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
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Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no
man knoweth whence he is.
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Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know
me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that
sent me is true, whom ye know not.
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But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
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Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him,
because his hour was not yet come.
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And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ
cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
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The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things
concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers
to take him.
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Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and
then I go unto him that sent me.
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Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither
ye cannot come.
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Then said the Jews 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 manner of saying is this that he
said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither
ye cannot come?
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In the last day, that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto
me, and drink.
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He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that
Jesus was not yet glorified.)
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Many of the people therefore, when
they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
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Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come
out of Galilee?
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Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh
of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David
was?
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So there was a division among the people because of him.
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And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on
him.
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Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and
they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
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The officers
answered, Never man spake like this man.
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Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
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Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
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But
this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
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Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being
one of them,)
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Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and
know what he doeth?
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They answered and said unto him, Art thou
also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no
prophet.
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And every man went unto his own house.
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