John

¹After these things, Jesus went about in Galilee; he did not wish to travel around in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him. ²Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles,¹¹¹³ was at hand. ³So his brothers¹¹¹⁴ said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, so that your disciples may also see your works which you are accomplishing. ⁴Certainly, no one who seeks to be known openly does anything in secret! If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world!” ⁵For even his brothers did not believe in him.

⁶Jesus 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 bear witness concerning it, that its works are evil. ⁸You go up to the feast. I am not yet¹¹¹⁵ going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

⁹Having said these things to them, he remained in Galilee. ¹⁰However, when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were, in private.^{1116 11}As a result, the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and they were asking, “Where is he?” ¹²There was much murmuring¹¹¹⁷ among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man!” Others replied, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray!” ¹³Still, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews. ¹⁴However, when it was the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. ¹⁵At this, the Jews were amazed and said, “How does this man have such learning¹¹¹⁸ without having been educated?”

¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but [it comes] from the one who sent me. ¹⁷Anyone who desires to do God’s¹¹¹⁹ will, will recognize¹¹²⁰ the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.^{1121 18}Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and [there is] no unrighteousness in him. ¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why [then] do you seek to kill me?”

²⁰The crowd replied, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”

²¹Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. ²²Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath, you circumcise a boy. ²³If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, [why] are you angry with me because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? ²⁴Do not judge according to appearance, but make a right judgment.”

²⁵Then some people from Jerusalem said, “Is this not the one whom they seek to kill? ²⁶Behold, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Could it be indeed that the rulers acknowledge that this is truly the Christ? ²⁷However, we know where this man comes from! But when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

²⁸Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, and you do not know him. ²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

Officers are sent to arrest the Lord

³⁰At this, they sought to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. ³¹In fact, many in the multitude believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he will not do more signs than the ones which this man has done, will he?” ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to arrest him.

³³Then Jesus 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, so 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?’”

Feast of the Tabernacles: Living Water

³⁷Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and spoke loudly, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! ³⁸From within¹¹²² whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will flow rivers of living water!”^{1123 39}But he said this concerning the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

About the Messiah/Christ

⁴⁰When they heard this saying¹¹²⁴, many of the people said, “This is truly the prophet!” ⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ!” Still others said, “What? Does the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴²Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David¹¹²⁵ and from Bethlehem,¹¹²⁶ the village where David was?” ⁴³And so, there arose a division¹¹²⁷ in the crowd because of him. ⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ⁴⁵And so, the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them,¹¹²⁸ “Why did you not bring him?”

⁴⁶The officers answered, “No one has ever spoken like this man!”

⁴⁷At this, the Pharisees replied, “You are not also led astray, are you? ⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude that does not know the law is accursed.”

⁵⁰Nicodemus (who had come to him by night, being one of the Pharisees¹¹²⁹) said to them, ⁵¹”Does our law judge someone without first hearing from him personally to find out what this person is doing?”

⁵²They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”¹¹³⁰

<<^{1131 53}And so, they went each one to his home.

The woman caught in adultery

1113. Or “Tents/Booths”
1114. See Appendix E
1115. CT omits “yet”
1116. Or “in secret”
1117. Or also “complaining/whispering”
1118. Literally “know letters”
1119. Greek “his”
1120. Or “know about”
1121. Or “on my own”
1122. Literally “from his belly”
1123. A different punctuation would read “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink who believes in me! As the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within him!” There are two ancient traditions as to ‘from whose body’ the rivers of living waters will flow—that of the believer or that of Christ. The second reading, given in this footnote, represents the reading and interpretation (“will flow from within him” = from Christ) of those associated with Asia Minor (sometimes called “Western view,” as in NTTT p. 282), including Justin, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Ephrem and even Cyprian. The more usual view (main reading, where the waters flow from the believer) is associated with Origen, Athanasius and the Greek fathers.
1124. Or “word” (Greek lo,goj)
1125. 2 Samuel 7:12
1126. Micah 5:2
1127. Greek sci,sma (schism)
1128. Or “the officers”
1129. Greek “them”
1130. See Isaias 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.
1131. Verses 7:53-8:11 are not found in all manuscripts (7:53-8:11 does not appear in P66, P75, א, B, C^vid, L, W, Δ, Θ, Ψ, and others) but are part of the Patriarchal Text. According to Eusebius (History of the Church; 3.39.17), both Papias and the lost gospel according to the Hebrews mention the story of a woman caught in many sins.