1 ^7:2AND the feast of the Jews was nigh, the feast of tabernacles. ^7:3Then his brothers said to him, Go down from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do; ^7:4for no one does any thing in secret, and seeks himself to be in public. If you do these things, show yourself to the world. ^7:5For his brothers did not believe on him. ^7:6Then Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ^7:7The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify of it that its works are evil. ^7:8Do you go up to the feast; I go not up to this feast, because my time has not yet fully come. ^7:9Having said these things he continued in Galilee.

2 ^7:10But when his brothers had gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. ^7:11Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? ^7:12And there was much complaining concerning him among the multitude; some said, He is a good man; others said, No; but he deceives the people. ^7:13Nevertheless, no one spoke openly for him from fear of the Jews.

3 ^7:14And in the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ^7:15Then the Jews wondered, saying, How does this man know letters, not having learned? ^7:16Then Jesus answered them and said, My teaching is not mine but his that sent me. ^7:17If any one will do his will, he shall know of the teaching whether it is from God or whether I speak from myself. ^7:18He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this [man] is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. ^7:19Did not Moses give you the law? and no one of you performs the law. Why do you seek to kill me? ^7:20The multitude answered, You have a demon; who seeks to kill you? ^7:21Jesus answered and said to them, I performed one work and you all wonder. ^7:22Moses gave you circumcision, not that it is of Moses but of the fathers, and you circumcise a man on the sabbath. ^7:23If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man entirely sound on the sabbath? ^7:24Judge not according to the appearance, but judge a righteous judgment.

4 ^7:25Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill? ^7:26And behold, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers at length learned that this is the Christ? ^7:27But we know this man whence he is; but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is. ^7:28Then Jesus cried, teaching in the temple and saying, You both know me and know whence I am; and I have not come of myself; but he that sent me is true, whom you know not; ^7:29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me. ^7:30Then they sought to take him by force; but no man laid a hand on him, for his hour had not yet come.

5 ^7:31And many of the multitude believed on him, and said, When the Christ comes will he perform more miracles than this man has performed? ^7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude saying these things concerning him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent to take him by force. ^7:33Then Jesus said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go to him that sent me. ^7:34You shall seek and shall not find, and where I am you cannot come. ^7:35Then the Jews said one to another, Where is this man about to go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? ^7:36What does the word which he said mean; You shall seek and shall not find me, and where I am you cannot come?

6 ^7:37And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink. ^7:38He that believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of him shall flow rivers of living water. ^7:39But he said this of the Spirit which those believing in him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified. ^7:40Then some of the multitude hearing these words, said, This is truly the prophet; ^7:41others said, This is the Christ; others said, [No]; for does the Christ come from Galilee? ^7:42Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? ^7:43Then there was a division among the multitude on his account; ^7:44and some of them wished to take him by force, but no one laid hands on him.

7 ^7:45Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have you not brought him? ^7:46The officers answered, A man never spoke thus. ^7:47The Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived? ^7:48Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? ^7:49But this multitude which know not the law are accursed. ^7:50Nicodemus, he that came to him, being one of them, said to them, ^7:51Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he does? ^7:52They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? search and see; for no prophet is raised up from Galilee.

8 ^7:53[An early interpolation, but probably true]. And every man went to his own house; ^8:1and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ^8:2And in the morning he went again to the temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat and taught them. ^8:3And the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman taken in adultery, and placing her in the midst ^8:4said to him, Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. ^8:5In the law, Moses commanded us that such should be stoned; what therefore do you say? ^8:6They said this to try him, that they might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus, stooping down, wrote with his finger on the ground. ^8:7And when they continued asking him, rising up, he said to them, Let him that has not sinned among you first cast the stone at her. ^8:8And again stooping down he wrote on the ground. ^8:9But they hearing, and being convicted by their consciences, went out, one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. ^8:10And Jesus rising up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? Has no man condemned you? ^8:11And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.