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John 7:1¹After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:16-18 John 4:3 Matt 21:38 John 7:19 Matt 10:23 Acts 10:38 Luke 13:31-33 John 1:19 John 10:39-40 John 11:53-54

John 7:2²Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 14:16-19 Deut 16:13-16 Exod 23:16-17 Lev 23:34-43 Num 29:12-38 1 Kgs 8:2 1 Kgs 8:65 2 Chr 7:9-10 Ezra 3:4 Neh 8:14-18

John 7:3³So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 12:46 John 7:5 1 Sam 17:28 Acts 2:14 Gen 37:20 Gen 37:5-11 Jer 12:6 John 7:10 Luke 8:19 Mark 3:31

John 7:4⁴For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 18:20 Prov 18:1-2 Luke 6:45 Matt 23:5 Matt 6:5 Matt 6:1-2 1 Kgs 22:13 Matt 4:6 Matt 6:16 Acts 2:4-12

John 7:5⁵(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 3:21 John 1:11-13 John 7:10 John 7:3 Mic 7:5-6

John 7:6⁶So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:8 John 2:4 John 7:30 John 17:1 John 13:1 John 8:20 Matt 26:18 Acts 1:7 Ps 102:13 Eccl 3:1-15

John 7:7⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:18-19 John 3:19 Gal 4:16 Prov 9:7-8 Jas 4:4 1 John 4:5 John 17:14 1 Kgs 21:20 Rom 8:7 Jer 20:8

John 7:8⁸You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:6 John 8:20 1 Cor 2:15-16 John 7:30

John 7:9⁹When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 7:10¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 5:13 Matt 10:16 Isa 42:2-3 Gal 4:4 John 11:54 John 7:3 John 7:5 Matt 3:15 Ps 26:8 Ps 40:8

John 7:11¹¹So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 11:56

John 7:12¹²There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:40-43 John 9:16 Acts 11:24 John 7:32 John 7:47 John 10:19-21 John 6:14 John 7:52 Luke 18:19 Luke 23:47

John 7:13¹³However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 9:22 John 19:38 John 12:42-43 John 20:19 Prov 29:25 Rev 2:13 2 Tim 2:9-13 Gal 2:12-13 John 3:2 John 9:34

John 7:14¹⁴When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:28 Luke 19:47 Hag 2:7-9 John 18:20 John 8:2 John 5:14 John 7:2 John 7:37 Mal 3:1 Matt 21:12

John 7:15¹⁵Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 4:22 Matt 13:54 Matt 7:28-29 Acts 26:24 John 7:46 Luke 2:47 Matt 22:22 Acts 2:7-13 Acts 4:11-12 Amos 7:14-15

John 7:16¹⁶So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:10 John 14:24 John 12:49-50 John 17:8 John 5:23-24 John 5:30 John 6:38-40 John 17:14 John 3:11 John 8:28

John 7:17¹⁷If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:31-32 John 8:43 Jer 31:33-34 John 8:47 Dan 12:10 Ps 25:8-9 Phil 3:15-16 Acts 17:11 Luke 8:15 Ps 119:101-102

John 7:18¹⁸The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:41 1 Cor 10:31-33 John 13:31-32 Phil 2:3-5 John 12:28 John 8:49-50 1 Thess 2:6 John 17:4-5 John 3:26-30 Matt 6:9

John 7:19¹⁹Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:17 John 7:1 John 11:53 Matt 12:14 Deut 1:17 Deut 33:4 Exod 24:2-3 Gal 6:13 Acts 7:38 Gal 3:19

John 7:20²⁰The crowd answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:20 John 8:48 Mark 3:21-22 John 8:52 Mark 3:30 Acts 26:24 Matt 10:25 Matt 11:18-19 Matt 12:24

John 7:21²¹Jesus replied, “I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:2-11 John 7:23

John 7:22²²However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 12:3 Gen 17:10-14 Rom 4:9-11 Gal 3:17

John 7:23²³But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:14-16 Matt 12:5 Matt 12:2 John 5:8-9

John 7:24²⁴Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 11:3-4 Jas 2:9 John 8:15 Prov 17:15 Prov 24:23 Jas 2:1 Deut 1:16-17 Deut 16:18-19 Isa 5:23 Lev 19:15

John 7:25²⁵Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:10-11

John 7:26²⁶Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the ruling authorities really know that this man is the Christ?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:7-8 Eph 6:19-20 John 7:48 Acts 4:13 Isa 42:4 Isa 50:7-8 John 11:47-53 John 9:22 Luke 7:30 Matt 22:16

John 7:27²⁷But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 5:2 John 7:41-42 John 6:42 John 9:29 Matt 13:54-57 Jer 30:21 Mark 6:3 Isa 11:1 Jer 23:5 Luke 4:22

John 7:28²⁸Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:42 Jer 9:6 John 8:19 John 12:49 John 8:14 John 8:26 1 John 2:3-4 John 17:3 John 5:43 Matt 11:27

John 7:29²⁹but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:55 Matt 11:27 1 John 4:9 John 1:18 John 17:18 John 17:25-26 John 3:16-17 John 6:46 1 John 1:2 John 10:15

John 7:30³⁰So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:39 John 7:6 John 8:20 John 7:32 Isa 46:10 John 11:57 John 11:9-10 John 7:19 John 7:44-46 John 7:8

John 7:31³¹Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:42 Matt 12:23 Acts 8:13 Jas 2:26 John 10:41-42 John 11:45 John 8:30-32 John 9:16 John 12:11 John 2:11

John 7:32³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 5:26 John 11:47-48 John 12:19 John 18:3 John 7:45-53 Luke 22:52-53 Matt 12:23-24 Matt 23:13

John 7:33³³Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:33 John 16:5 John 14:19 John 17:11 John 17:13 Mark 16:19 John 12:35-36 John 13:1 John 13:3 John 16:10

John 7:34³⁴You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:33-36 Prov 1:24-31 Hos 5:6 John 14:3 John 14:6 John 17:24 John 8:21-24 Luke 13:34-35 Luke 13:24-25 Luke 17:22-23

John 7:35³⁵Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 1:1 1 Pet 1:1 Isa 11:12 Zeph 3:10 Isa 11:10 John 12:20 1 Tim 2:7 2 Tim 1:11 Acts 11:18 Acts 13:46-48

John 7:36³⁶What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:9 John 7:34 1 Cor 2:14 John 12:34 John 16:17-18 John 3:4 John 6:41 John 6:52 John 6:60

John 7:37³⁷On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, andCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 55:1 John 4:14 John 6:35 Isa 12:3 Rev 22:17 Isa 44:3 John 4:10 Ps 42:2 Rev 21:6 Isa 41:17-18

John 7:38³⁸let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:14 Isa 44:3 Isa 58:11 Isa 12:3 John 4:10 Prov 10:11 Zech 14:8 Prov 18:4 Gal 5:22-23 Isa 59:21

John 7:39³⁹(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 2:17 Joel 2:28 John 14:16-17 Acts 2:33 Acts 2:4 Isa 32:15 John 12:16 John 16:7 Acts 2:38 Isa 44:3

John 7:40⁴⁰When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 21:11 John 1:21 John 6:14

John 7:41⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:52 John 1:46 John 1:49 John 1:41 John 4:25 John 4:29 John 4:42 John 6:69 John 7:31 Matt 16:14-16

John 7:42⁴²Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 5:2 Matt 2:5 Jer 23:5 Luke 2:4 Isa 11:1 Luke 2:11 Matt 1:1 1 Sam 16:1 Ps 132:11 1 Sam 16:18

John 7:43⁴³So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:19 John 9:16 John 7:12 Luke 12:51 Acts 14:4 Acts 23:7-10 Matt 10:35

John 7:44⁴⁴Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 23:11 John 7:30 John 8:20 Acts 18:10 Acts 27:23-25 John 18:5-6

John 7:45⁴⁵Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:32 Acts 5:21-27

John 7:46⁴⁶The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 7:28-29 Luke 4:22 John 7:26

John 7:47⁴⁷Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:12 2 Cor 6:8 2 Chr 32:15 2 Kgs 18:29 2 Kgs 18:32 John 9:27-34 Matt 27:63

John 7:48⁴⁸None of the members of the ruling council or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:42 1 Cor 1:20 1 Cor 2:8 John 7:26 1 Cor 1:22-28 Acts 6:7 Jer 5:4-5 John 7:50 Matt 11:25

John 7:49⁴⁹But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:20-21 1 Cor 3:18-20 Jas 3:13-18 John 9:34 John 9:40 Isa 28:14 Isa 29:14-19 Isa 5:21 Isa 65:5

John 7:50⁵⁰Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 19:39 John 3:1-2

John 7:51⁵¹“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 18:13 Deut 1:17 Acts 23:3 Deut 19:15-19 Deut 17:6 Deut 17:8-11

John 7:52⁵²They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:41 John 1:46 Isa 9:1-2 Matt 4:15-16 1 Kgs 22:24 Exod 2:14 Gen 19:9 John 9:34 Prov 9:7-8

John 7:53⁵³[[And each one departed to his own house.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 33:10 Job 5:12-13 Ps 76:10 Ps 76:5

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