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- Subject: NCS-- John 7:1-53
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- JOHN 7:1-53
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- JESUS GOES TO THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
- ======================================
-
- John 7:1 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying
- away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life.
-
- John 7:2 But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near,
-
- John 7:3 Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go
- to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do.
-
- John 7:4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret.
- Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."
-
- John 7:5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
-
- John 7:6 Therefore Jesus told them, "The right time for me has not yet
- come; for you any time is right.
-
- John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify
- that what it does is evil.
-
- John 7:8 You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast,
- because for me the right time has not yet come."
-
- John 7:9 Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.
-
- John 7:10 However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went
- also, not publicly, but in secret.
-
- John 7:11 Now at the Feast the Jews were watching for him and asking,
- "Where is that man?"
-
- John 7:12 Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him.
- Some said, "He is a good man." Others replied, "No, he deceives the
- people."
-
- John 7:13 But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of
- the Jews.
-
-
- JESUS TEACHES AT THE FEAST
- ==========================
-
- John 7:14 Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the
- temple courts and begin to teach.
-
- John 7:15 The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such
- learning without having studied?"
-
- John 7:16 Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from
- him who sent me.
-
- John 7:17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether
- my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
-
- John 7:18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself,
- but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of
- truth; there is nothing false about him.
-
- John 7:19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps
- the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
-
- John 7:20 "You are demon-possessed," the crowd answered. "Who is
- trying to kill you?"
-
- John 7:21 Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all
- astonished.
-
- John 7:22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it
- did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a
- child on the Sabbath.
-
- John 7:23 Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the
- law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing
- the whole man on the Sabbath?
-
- John 7:24 Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right
- judgment."
-
-
- IS JESUS THE MESSIAH?
- =====================
-
- John 7:25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask,
- "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?
-
- John 7:26 Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a
- word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the
- Christ?
-
- John 7:27 But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes,
- no one will know where he is from."
-
- John 7:28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out,
- "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my
- own, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,
-
- John 7:29 but I know him because I am from him and he sent me."
-
- John 7:30 At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on
- him, because his time had not yet come.
-
- John 7:31 Still, many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said,
- "When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this
- man?"
-
- John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about
- him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to
- arrest him.
-
- John 7:33 Jesus said, "I am with you for only a short time, and then I
- go to the one who sent me.
-
- John 7:34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I
- am, you cannot come."
-
- John 7:35 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
- among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
-
- John 7:36 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'?"
-
- John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and
- said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and
- drink.
-
- John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams
- of living water will flow from within him."
-
- John 7:39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him
- were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given,
- since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
-
- John 7:40 On hearing his words, some of the people said, "Surely this
- man is the Prophet."
-
- John 7:41 Others said, "He is the Christ." Still others asked, "How
- can the Christ come from Galilee?
-
- John 7:42 Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from
- David's family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?"
-
- John 7:43 Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.
-
- John 7:44 Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
-
-
- UNBELIEF OF THE JEWISH LEADERS
- ==============================
-
- John 7:45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and
- Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?"
-
- John 7:46 "No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards
- declared.
-
- John 7:47 "You mean he has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted.
-
- John 7:48 "Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
-
- John 7:49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law--there is a
- curse on them."
-
- John 7:50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of
- their own number, asked,
-
- John 7:51 "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to
- find out what he is doing?"
-
- John 7:52 They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and
- you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee."
-
- John 7:53 Then each went to his own home.
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