{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/john/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T20:56:05.753Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":7,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":53},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"His brothers therefore said to him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that your disciples also may see the works that you do."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For there is no man that does any thing in secret, and he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For neither did his brothers believe in him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Then Jesus said to them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Go you up to this feast: I go not up yet to this feast: for my time is not yet full come."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"When he had said these words to them, he stayed still in Galilee."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But when his brothers were gone up, then went he also up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, No; but he deceives the people."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"However, no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And the Jews marveled, saying, How knows this man letters, having never learned?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law?  Why go you about to kill me?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The people answered and said, You have a devil: who goes about to kill you?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and you all marvel."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Moses therefore gave to you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and you on the sabbath day circumcise a man."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are you angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"But, see, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"However, we know this man from where he is: but when Christ comes, no man knows from where he is."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, You both know me, and you know from where I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go to him that sent me."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Then said the Jews among themselves, Where will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go to the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come?"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"(But this spoke 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.)"},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?"},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?"},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"So there was a division among the people because of him."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why have you not brought him?"},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"The officers answered, Never man spoke like this man."},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"Then answered them the Pharisees, Are you also deceived?"},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?"},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"But this people who knows not the law are cursed."},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)"},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"Does our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he does?"},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"They answered and said to him, Are you also of Galilee?  Search, and look: for out of Galilee rises no prophet."},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"And every man went to his own house."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 7 (AKJV)","markdown":"[John 7](https://primebible.com/akjv/john/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/john/7 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}