Joh 7:14-52 | ESV | STEP | About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching .

14 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^ainto the temple and began teaching. 15 The Jews therefore ^bmarveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, ^{▼▼Or this man knows his letters} when he has never studied?” 16 So Jesus answered them, ^d“My teaching is not mine, but his ^ewho sent me. 17 ^fIf anyone’s will is to do God’s ^{▼▼Greek his} will, ^hhe will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ⁱam speaking on my own authority. 18 The one who speaks on his own authority ^jseeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. 19 ^kHas not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^lWhy do you seek to kill me?” 20 The crowd answered, ^m“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” 21 Jesus answered them, “I did ⁿone work, and you all marvel at it. 22 ^oMoses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^pfrom the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^qare you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well? 24 ^rDo not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Can This Be the Christ?

25 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^sthey seek to kill? 26 And here he is, ^tspeaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^uthe authorities really know that this is the Christ? 27 But ^vwe know ^wwhere this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^xno one will know where he comes from.” 28 So Jesus proclaimed, ^yas he taught in the temple, ^z“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^aaI have not come of my own accord. ^abHe who sent me is true, ^acand him you do not know. 29 ^adI know him, for I come ^aefrom him, and ^afhe sent me.” 30 ^agSo they were seeking to arrest him, but ^ahno one laid a hand on him, ^aibecause his hour had not yet come. 31 Yet ^ajmany of the people believed in him. They said, ^ak“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd ^almuttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^amofficers to arrest him. 33 Jesus then said, ^an“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^aoI am going to him who sent me. 34 ^apYou will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” 35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^aqDoes he intend to go to ^arthe Dispersion among ^asthe Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What does he mean by saying, ^at‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

37 ^auOn the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^av“If anyone thirsts, let him ^awcome to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, ^axas ^{▼▼Or let him come to me, and let him who believes in me drink. As} the Scripture has said, ^az‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^baliving water.’” 39 Now ^bbthis he said about the Spirit, ^bcwhom those who believed in him were to receive, ^bdfor as yet the Spirit had not been ^begiven, ^bfbecause Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

40 When they heard these words, ^bgsome of the people said, “This really is ^bhthe Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is ^bithe Christ.” But some said, ^bj“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^bkfrom the offspring of David, and comes ^blfrom Bethlehem, the village ^bmwhere David was?” 43 So there was ^bna division among the people over him. 44 ^boSome of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

45 ^bpThe officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” 46 The officers answered, ^bq“No one ever spoke like this man!” 47 The Pharisees answered them, ^br“Have you also been deceived? 48 ^bsHave any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” 50 ^btNicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, 51 ^bu“Does our law judge a man without first ^bvgiving him a hearing and learning what he does?” 52 They replied, ^bw“Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ^bxno prophet arises from Galilee.”