John 7

After these things, 'Isa was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ²Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. ³His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. ⁴For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." ⁵For even his own brothers didn't believe in him.

⁶'Isa therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. ⁸You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

⁹Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. ¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ¹¹The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" ¹²There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." ¹³Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. ¹⁴But when it was now the midst of the feast, 'Isa went up into the temple and taught. ¹⁵The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

¹⁶'Isa therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ¹⁷If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from Allah, or if I am speaking from myself. ¹⁸He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. ¹⁹Didn't Musa give you the Taurat, and yet none of you obeys the Taurat? Why do you seek to kill me?"

²⁰The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

²¹'Isa answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. ²²Musa has given you circumcision (not that it is of Musa, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. ²³If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the Taurat of Musa may not be disobeyed, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath? ²⁴Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

²⁵Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? ²⁶Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly al-Masih? ²⁷However we know where this man comes from, but when al-Masih comes, no one will know where he comes from."

²⁸'Isa therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know. ²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

³⁰They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ³¹But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When al-Masih comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

³³Then 'Isa said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. ³⁴You will seek me, and will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come."

³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we will not find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come?'"

³⁷Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, 'Isa stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! ³⁸He who believes in me, as Al-Kitab has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." ³⁹But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because 'Isa wasn't yet glorified.

⁴⁰Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." ⁴¹Others said, "This is al-Masih." But some said, "What, does al-Masih come out of Galilee? ⁴²Hasn't Al-Kitab said that al-Masih comes of the seed of Dawud, and from Bethlehem, the village where Dawud was?" ⁴³So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. ⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

⁴⁶The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, "Have you been led astray too? ⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude that does not know the Taurat is accursed."

⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹"Does our Taurat judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

⁵²They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

⁵³Everyone went to his own house,