arch...@jab.org
The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 7
{7:1} After these things, Yeshua was walking in Galilee, for he
wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Judeans sought to kill him. {7:2}
Now the Jewish festival, the Feast of Sukkot, was at hand. {7:3} His
brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea,
that your disciples also may see your works which you do. {7:4} For no
one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If
you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." {7:5} For even his
brothers didn't believe in him.
{7:6} Yeshua therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but
your time is always ready. {7:7} The world can't hate you, but it
hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. {7:8}
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because
my time is not yet fulfilled."
{7:9} Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. {7:10}
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up,
not publicly, but as it were in secret. {7:11} The Judeans therefore
sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" {7:12} There 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."
{7:13} Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Judeans. {7:14}
But when it was now the midst of the feast, Yeshua went up into the
temple and taught. {7:15} The Judeans therefore marveled, saying, "How
does this man know letters, having never been educated?"
{7:16} Yeshua therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but
his who sent me. {7:17} If anyone desires to do his will, he will know
about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from
myself. {7:18} He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he
who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him. {7:19} Didn't Moses give you the Torah, and
yet none of you keeps the Torah? Why do you seek to kill me?"
{7:20} The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill
you?"
{7:21} Yeshua answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel
because of it. {7:22} Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is
of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a
boy. {7:23} If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the
Torah of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I
made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? {7:24} Don't judge
according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
{7:25} Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom
they seek to kill? {7:26} Behold, he speaks openly, and they say
nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is
truly the Messiah? {7:27} However we know where this man comes from,
but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."
{7:28} Yeshua 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 don't know. {7:29} I
know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
{7:30} They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on
him, because his hour had not yet come. {7:31} But of the multitude,
many believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do
more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" {7:32} The
Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him,
and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
{7:33} Then Yeshua said, "I will be with you a little while longer,
then I go to him who sent me. {7:34} You will seek me, and won't find
me; and where I am, you can't come."
{7:35} The Judeans therefore said among themselves, "Where will this
man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the
Greeks, and teach the Greeks? {7:36} What is this word that he said,
'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"
{7:37} Now on the last and [1>]greatest day of the feast[<1], Yeshua
stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and
drink! {7:38} He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from
within him will flow rivers of living water." {7:39} But he said this
about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For
the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Yeshua wasn't yet glorified.
{7:40} Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words,
said, "This is truly the Prophet." {7:41} Others said, "This is the
Messiah." But some said, "What, does the Messiah come out of Galilee?
{7:42} Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of
David,[2] and from Bethlehem,[3] the village where David was?" {7:43}
So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. {7:44} Some
of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. {7:45}
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and
they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
{7:46} The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
{7:47} The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led
astray, are you? {7:48} Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of
the Pharisees? {7:49} But this multitude that doesn't know the Torah
is accursed."
{7:50} Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them)
said to them, {7:51} "Does our Torah judge a man, unless it first
hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
{7:52} They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and
see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.[4]"
{7:53} Everyone went to his own house,
________________________________________________________________________
Footnotes:
[1] {7:37} Known today as Hoshana Rabbah.
[2] {7:42} 2 Samuel 7:12
[3] {7:42} Micah 5:2
[4] {7:52} See Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.
________________________________________________________________________
The World English Bible: Messianic Edition is in the Public Domain.
This translation is also known as the Hebrew Names Version. "World
English Bible," "World English Bible: Messianic Edition," and "World
English Bible" are trademarks of Rainbow Missions, Inc., and may only
be used as names for the Bible translations so named and distributed by
Rainbow Missions, Inc., and faithful copies thereof. Typo reports are
welcome at http://eBible.org/cgi-bin/comment.cgi. Please see
http://HNVBible.org for updates.
______________________________________________
You are subscribed the HNV mailing list as arch...@jab.org.
You may unsubscribe or change your address at any time at:
http://lists.ebible.org/mailman/listinfo/hnv
This list is being replaced by the list at
http://groups.google.com/group/web-me, so you should subscribe to that one,
and, if you don't want duplicate messages, unsubscribe from this one.
http://RainbowMissions.org
