{"reader_html":"<h1 class=\"chapter-heading\">John<span class=\"chapter-label\">Chapter 7<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"1\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,1,&quot;John&quot;)\">1<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"2\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,2,&quot;John&quot;)\">2<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Now the Jews&#039; feast of tabernacles was at hand.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"3\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,3,&quot;John&quot;)\">3<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence, and go into Judea; that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"4\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,4,&quot;John&quot;)\">4<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"5\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,5,&quot;John&quot;)\">5<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">For neither did his brethren believe in him.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"6\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,6,&quot;John&quot;)\">6<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"7\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,7,&quot;John&quot;)\">7<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"8\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,8,&quot;John&quot;)\">8<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Go you up to this festival day, but I go not up to this festival day: because my time is not accomplished.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"9\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,9,&quot;John&quot;)\">9<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"10\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,10,&quot;John&quot;)\">10<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"11\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,11,&quot;John&quot;)\">11<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day, and said: Where is he?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"12\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,12,&quot;John&quot;)\">12<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"13\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,13,&quot;John&quot;)\">13<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"14\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,14,&quot;John&quot;)\">14<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"15\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,15,&quot;John&quot;)\">15<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"16\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,16,&quot;John&quot;)\">16<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"17\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,17,&quot;John&quot;)\">17<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If any man do the will of him; he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"18\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,18,&quot;John&quot;)\">18<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"19\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,19,&quot;John&quot;)\">19<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"20\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,20,&quot;John&quot;)\">20<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered, and said: Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"21\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,21,&quot;John&quot;)\">21<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Jesus answered, and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"22\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,22,&quot;John&quot;)\">22<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"23\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,23,&quot;John&quot;)\">23<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"24\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,24,&quot;John&quot;)\">24<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"25\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,25,&quot;John&quot;)\">25<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"26\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,26,&quot;John&quot;)\">26<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth, that this is the Christ?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"27\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,27,&quot;John&quot;)\">27<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"28\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,28,&quot;John&quot;)\">28<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching, and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself; but he that sent me, is true, whom you know not.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"29\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,29,&quot;John&quot;)\">29<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"30\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,30,&quot;John&quot;)\">30<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"31\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,31,&quot;John&quot;)\">31<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">But of the people many believed in him, and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles, than these which this man doth?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"32\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,32,&quot;John&quot;)\">32<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"33\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,33,&quot;John&quot;)\">33<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"34\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,34,&quot;John&quot;)\">34<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"35\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,35,&quot;John&quot;)\">35<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"36\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,36,&quot;John&quot;)\">36<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, you cannot come?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"37\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,37,&quot;John&quot;)\">37<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"38\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,38,&quot;John&quot;)\">38<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"39\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,39,&quot;John&quot;)\">39<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive, who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"40\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,40,&quot;John&quot;)\">40<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"41\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,41,&quot;John&quot;)\">41<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"42\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,42,&quot;John&quot;)\">42<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"43\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,43,&quot;John&quot;)\">43<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"44\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,44,&quot;John&quot;)\">44<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"45\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,45,&quot;John&quot;)\">45<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"46\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,46,&quot;John&quot;)\">46<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"47\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,47,&quot;John&quot;)\">47<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"48\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,48,&quot;John&quot;)\">48<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"49\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,49,&quot;John&quot;)\">49<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"50\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,50,&quot;John&quot;)\">50<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to him by night, who was one of them:)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"51\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,51,&quot;John&quot;)\">51<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"52\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,52,&quot;John&quot;)\">52<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">They answered, and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see, that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"53\" onclick=\"loadParallel(2,4,7,53,&quot;John&quot;)\">53<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And every man returned to his own house.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-nav\"><a href=\"\/drb\/2\/4\/6\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">&lsaquo; Previous<\/a><a href=\"\/drb\/2\/4\/8\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">Next &rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","page_title":"John, Chapter 7 — Douay-Rheims Bible","book_title":"John","toolbar_title":"John — Ch. 7","prev_url":"\/drb\/2\/4\/6","next_url":"\/drb\/2\/4\/8","tid":2,"book_id":4,"chapter":7,"num_chapters":21,"trans":"DRB","is_rtl":false,"strongs_data":{},"bsb_glosses":{},"book_name":"John","canonical_url":"https:\/\/accept.gift\/drb\/2\/4\/7","meta_desc":"AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at ha…"}