Read-aloud uses AI-generated Orakel narrator voices when available. Voice names are Orakel styles, not provider names.
John Chapter 7 007:001 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 007:002 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. 007:003 His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. 007:004 For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly.
If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." 007:005 For even his brothers didn't believe in him. 007:006 Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 007:007 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. 007:008 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." 007:009 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
007:010 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. 007:011 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" 007:012 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." 007:013 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. 007:014 But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
007:015 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" 007:016 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 007:017 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. 007:018 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.
007:019 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" 007:020 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" 007:021 Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. 007:022 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
007:023 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 every bit whole on the Sabbath? 007:024 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." 007:025 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? 007:026 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
007:027 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from." 007:028 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. 007:029 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." 007:030 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
007:031 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?" 007:032 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 007:033 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
007:034 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come." 007:035 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? 007:036 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?" 007:037 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!
007:038 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." 007:039 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. 007:040 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." 007:041 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
007:042 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David,{2 Samuel 7:12} and from Bethlehem,{Micah 5:2} the village where David was?" 007:043 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. 007:044 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
007:045 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" 007:046 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" 007:047 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? 007:048 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
007:049 But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed." 007:050 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, 007:051 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" 007:052 They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.{See Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.}" 007:053 Everyone went to his own house,