[7:16] Jesus 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 law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
[7:20] The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
[7:21] Jesus 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 law 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 Christ? [7:27] However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."
[7:28] Jesus 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 Christ 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 Jesus 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 Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion 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 greatest day of the feast, Jesus 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 Jesus 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 Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? [7:42] Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David,[*] and from Bethlehem,[*] 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?"