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Greek: New Testament (NAS)
English: John Barach
Chapter 7
Advice from Unbelieving Brothers
1  Καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα περιεπάτει ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ· οὐ γὰρ ἤθελεν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ περιπατεῖν, ὅτι ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἀποκτεῖναι. 2  ἦν δὲ ἐγγὺς ἡ ἑορτὴ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἡ σκηνοπηγία. 3  εἶπον οὖν πρὸς αὐτὸν οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ, Μετάβηθι ἐντεῦθεν καὶ ὕπαγε εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν, ἵνα καὶ οἱ μαθηταί σου θεωρήσουσιν σοῦ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ποιεῖς· 4  οὐδεὶς γάρ τι ἐν κρυπτῷ ποιεῖ καὶ ζητεῖ αὐτὸς ἐν παρρησίᾳ εἶναι. εἰ ταῦτα ποιεῖς, φανέρωσον σεαυτὸν τῷ κόσμῳ. 5  οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπίστευον εἰς αὐτόν. 6  λέγει οὖν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ὁ καιρὸς ὁ ἐμὸς οὔπω πάρεστιν, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὁ ὑμέτερος πάντοτέ ἐστιν ἕτοιμος. 7  οὐ δύναται ὁ κόσμος μισεῖν ὑμᾶς, ἐμὲ δὲ μισεῖ, ὅτι ἐγὼ μαρτυρῶ περὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ πονηρά ἐστιν. 8  ὑμεῖς ἀνάβητε εἰς τὴν ἑορτήν· ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀναβαίνω εἰς τὴν ἑορτὴν ταύτην, ὅτι ὁ ἐμὸς καιρὸς οὔπω πεπλήρωται. 9  ταῦτα δὲ εἰπὼν αὐτὸς ἔμεινεν ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ.
1After these things, Jesus was walking about in Galilee; for he did not want to walk about in Judea because the Judeans were seeking to kill him. 2Now the Jewish feast, the Feast of Booths, was near. 3Therefore his brothers said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may observe the works you are doing. 4For no one does anything in secret while seeking to be known in public. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world!” 5For not even his brothers believed in him. 6So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always ready. 7The world is not able to hate you, but it hates me because I testify concerning it—that its works are evil. 8You go up to the feast; I am not going up to this feast yet, because my time has not yet been fully completed.” 9Having said these things, he remained in Galilee.
Secret Arrival at the Feast
10  Ὡς δὲ ἀνέβησαν οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν ἑορτήν, τότε καὶ αὐτὸς ἀνέβη οὐ φανερῶς ἀλλὰ [ὡς] ἐν κρυπτῷ. 11  οἱ οὖν Ἰουδαῖοι ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ καὶ ἔλεγον, Ποῦ ἐστιν ἐκεῖνος; 12  καὶ γογγυσμὸς περὶ αὐτοῦ ἦν πολὺς ἐν τοῖς ὄχλοις· οἱ μὲν ἔλεγον ὅτι Ἀγαθός ἐστιν, ἄλλοι [δὲ] ἔλεγον, Οὔ, ἀλλὰ πλανᾷ τὸν ὄχλον. 13  οὐδεὶς μέντοι παρρησίᾳ ἐλάλει περὶ αὐτοῦ διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν Ἰουδαίων.
10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up—not publicly, but as if in secret. 11The Judeans, therefore, were looking for him at the feast and were saying, “Where is that man?” 12And there was much whispering about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he is leading the crowd astray.” 13Yet no one was speaking openly about him because of their fear of the Judeans.
Teaching in the Temple
14  Ἤδη δὲ τῆς ἑορτῆς μεσούσης ἀνέβη Ἰησοῦς εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ ἐδίδασκεν. 15  ἐθαύμαζον οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι λέγοντες, Πῶς οὗτος γράμματα οἶδεν μὴ μεμαθηκώς; 16  ἀπεκρίθη οὖν αὐτοῖς [ὁ] Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν, Ἡ ἐμὴ διδαχὴ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμὴ ἀλλὰ τοῦ πέμψαντός με· 17  ἐάν τις θέλῃ τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ ποιεῖν, γνώσεται περὶ τῆς διδαχῆς πότερον ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστιν ἢ ἐγὼ ἀπ' ἐμαυτοῦ λαλῶ. 18  ὁ ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ λαλῶν τὴν δόξαν τὴν ἰδίαν ζητεῖ· ὁ δὲ ζητῶν τὴν δόξαν τοῦ πέμψαντος αὐτὸν οὗτος ἀληθής ἐστιν καὶ ἀδικία ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν.
14Now when the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. 15The Judeans were amazed, therefore, saying, “How does this man know his letters, having never been a student?” 16So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but belongs to the one who sent me. 17If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching—whether it is from God or whether I am speaking from myself. 18The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him—this man is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
19  οὐ Μωϋσῆς δέδωκεν ὑμῖν τὸν νόμον; καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐξ ὑμῶν ποιεῖ τὸν νόμον. τί με ζητεῖτε ἀποκτεῖναι; 20  ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ὄχλος, Δαιμόνιον ἔχεις· τίς σε ζητεῖ ἀποκτεῖναι; 21  ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Ἓν ἔργον ἐποίησα καὶ πάντες θαυμάζετε. 22  διὰ τοῦτο Μωϋσῆς δέδωκεν ὑμῖν τὴν περιτομήν —οὐχ ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Μωϋσέως ἐστὶν ἀλλ' ἐκ τῶν πατέρων —καὶ ἐν σαββάτῳ περιτέμνετε ἄνθρωπον. 23  εἰ περιτομὴν λαμβάνει ἄνθρωπος ἐν σαββάτῳ ἵνα μὴ λυθῇ ὁ νόμος Μωϋσέως, ἐμοὶ χολᾶτε ὅτι ὅλον ἄνθρωπον ὑγιῆ ἐποίησα ἐν σαββάτῳ; 24  μὴ κρίνετε κατ' ὄψιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν δικαίαν κρίσιν κρίνετε.
19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you seeking to kill me?” 20The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” 21Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work, and you are all amazed. 22Because of this, Moses gave you circumcision—not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man even on the Sabbath. 23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses might not be broken, are you bitter toward me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath? 24Do not judge by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment.”
Debate over the Messiah’s Origins
25  Ἔλεγον οὖν τινες ἐκ τῶν Ἱεροσολυμιτῶν, Οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὃν ζητοῦσιν ἀποκτεῖναι; 26  καὶ ἴδε παρρησίᾳ λαλεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτῷ λέγουσιν. μήποτε ἀληθῶς ἔγνωσαν οἱ ἄρχοντες ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός. 27  ἀλλὰ τοῦτον οἴδαμεν πόθεν ἐστίν· ὁ δὲ Χριστὸς ὅταν ἔρχηται οὐδεὶς γινώσκει πόθεν ἐστίν. 28  ἔκραξεν οὖν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ διδάσκων ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ λέγων, Κἀμὲ οἴδατε καὶ οἴδατε πόθεν εἰμί· καὶ ἀπ' ἐμαυτοῦ οὐκ ἐλήλυθα, ἀλλ' ἔστιν ἀληθινὸς ὁ πέμψας με, ὃν ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε· 29  ἐγὼ οἶδα αὐτόν, ὅτι παρ' αὐτοῦ εἰμι κἀκεῖνός με ἀπέστειλεν. 30  Ἐζήτουν οὖν αὐτὸν πιάσαι, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐπέβαλεν ἐπ' αὐτὸν τὴν χεῖρα, ὅτι οὔπω ἐληλύθει ἡ ὥρα αὐτοῦ. 31  Ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου δὲ πολλοὶ ἐπίστευσαν εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ ἔλεγον, Ὁ Χριστὸς ὅταν ἔλθῃ μὴ πλείονα σημεῖα ποιήσει ὧν οὗτος ἐποίησεν;
25 Then some of the Jerusalem residents were saying, “isn’t this the man they are seeking to kill? 26And look! He is speaking openly and they aren’t saying a thing to him. Could it be that the rulers have truly realized that this man is the Christ? 27But we know where this man is from; yet whenever the Christ comes, no one is to know where he is from.” 28Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple, cried out and said, “So you both know me and you know where I am from? Yet I have not come on my own accord, but the one who sent me is true—whom you do not know. 29I know him, because I am from his side, and that One sent me.” 30Therefore they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31But many from the crowd believed in him and were saying, “When the Christ comes, will he perform more signs than this man has done?”
The Attempted Arrest
32  Ἤκουσαν οἱ Φαρισαῖοι τοῦ ὄχλου γογγύζοντος περὶ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα, καὶ ἀπέστειλαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι ὑπηρέτας ἵνα πιάσωσιν αὐτόν. 33  εἶπεν οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἔτι χρόνον μικρὸν μεθ' ὑμῶν εἰμι καὶ ὑπάγω πρὸς τὸν πέμψαντά με. 34  ζητήσετέ με καὶ οὐχ εὑρήσετέ [με], καὶ ὅπου εἰμὶ ἐγὼ ὑμεῖς οὐ δύνασθε ἐλθεῖν. 35  εἶπον οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι πρὸς ἑαυτούς, Ποῦ οὗτος μέλλει πορεύεσθαι ὅτι ἡμεῖς οὐχ εὑρήσομεν αὐτόν; μὴ εἰς τὴν διασπορὰν τῶν Ἑλλήνων μέλλει πορεύεσθαι καὶ διδάσκειν τοὺς Ἕλληνας; 36  τίς ἐστιν ὁ λόγος οὗτος ὃν εἶπεν, Ζητήσετέ με καὶ οὐχ εὑρήσετέ [με], καὶ ὅπου εἰμι ἐγὼ ὑμεῖς οὐ δύνασθε ἐλθεῖν;
32The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple officers to arrest him. 33Therefore Jesus said, “I am with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going away to the one who sent me. 34You will seek me and you will not find me; and where I am, you are not able to come.” 35Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where is this man about to go that we won’t find him? Is he about to go to the Diaspora among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36What is this statement he made: ‘You will seek me and you will not find me; and where I am, you are not able to come’?”
The Living Water
37  Ἐν δὲ τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ τῆς ἑορτῆς εἱστήκει ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἔκραξεν λέγων, Ἐάν τις διψᾷ ἐρχέσθω πρός με καὶ πινέτω. 38  ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμέ, καθὼς εἶπεν ἡ γραφή, ποταμοὶ ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας αὐτοῦ ῥεύσουσιν ὕδατος ζῶντος. 39  τοῦτο δὲ εἶπεν περὶ τοῦ πνεύματος ὃ ἔμελλον λαμβάνειν οἱ πιστεύσαντες εἰς αὐτόν· οὔπω γὰρ ἦν πνεῦμα, ὅτι Ἰησοῦς οὐδέπω ἐδοξάσθη.
37On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink! 38The one who believes in me—just as the Scripture said—rivers of living water will flow from his innermost being.” 39Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
A Divided Crowd
40  Ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου οὖν ἀκούσαντες τῶν λόγων τούτων ἔλεγον, Οὗτός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς ὁ προφήτης· 41  ἄλλοι ἔλεγον, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός, οἱ δὲ ἔλεγον, Μὴ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ὁ Χριστὸς ἔρχεται; 42  οὐχ ἡ γραφὴ εἶπεν ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος Δαυὶδ καὶ ἀπὸ Βηθλεὲμ τῆς κώμης ὅπου ἦν Δαυὶδ ἔρχεται ὁ Χριστός; 43  σχίσμα οὖν ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ δι' αὐτόν· 44  τινὲς δὲ ἤθελον ἐξ αὐτῶν πιάσαι αὐτόν, ἀλλ' οὐδεὶς ἐπέβαλεν ἐπ' αὐτὸν τὰς χεῖρας.
40Therefore, some from the crowd, when they heard these words, were saying, “This man is truly the Prophet.” 41Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” But some were saying, “Surely the Christ doesn’t come out of Galilee, does he? 42Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43So a division occurred among the crowd because of him. 44Some of them were wanting to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
The Failure of the Temple Guard
45  Ἦλθον οὖν οἱ ὑπηρέται πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ Φαρισαίους καὶ εἶπον αὐτοῖς ἐκεῖνοι, Διὰ τί οὐκ ἠγάγετε αὐτόν; 46  ἀπεκρίθησαν οἱ ὑπηρέται, Οὐδέποτε ἐλάλησεν οὕτως ἄνθρωπος. 47  ἀπεκρίθησαν οὖν αὐτοῖς οἱ Φαρισαῖοι, Μὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς πεπλάνησθε; 48  μή τις ἐκ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐπίστευσεν εἰς αὐτὸν ἢ ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων; 49  ἀλλὰ ὁ ὄχλος οὗτος ὁ μὴ γινώσκων τὸν νόμον ἐπάρατοί εἰσιν.
45Then the officers came back to the chief priests and Pharisees, and those men said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” 46The officers answered, “Never has a human spoken like this!” 47Then the Pharisees answered them, “You haven’t been led astray too, have you? 48Has any one of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49But this crowd—those who do not know the Law—they are under a curse!”
50  λέγει Νικόδημος πρὸς αὐτούς, ὁ ἐλθὼν πρὸς αὐτὸν [τὸ] πρότερον, εἷς ὢν ἐξ αὐτῶν, 51  Μὴ ὁ νόμος ἡμῶν κρίνει τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ πρῶτον παρ' αὐτοῦ καὶ γνῷ τί ποιεῖ; 52  ἀπεκρίθησαν καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ, Μὴ καὶ σὺ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἶ; ἐραύνησον καὶ ἴδε ὅτι ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας προφήτης οὐκ ἐγείρεται.
50Nicodemus said to them (the one who had come to him previously, being one of them), 51“Our Law doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?” 52They answered and said to him, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Search and see that no prophet is to arise out of Galilee.”
53  [[Καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ,
53[[And each went to his own house.]]