The Gospel According to John (American Standard Version, 1901) · 12 of 37 · tr. American Standard Version (1901)
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[6:68] Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
[6:69] And we have believed and know that thou art the Holy One of God.
[6:70] Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?
[6:71] Now he spake of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
[7:1] And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
[7:2] Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.
[7:3] His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works which thou doest.
[7:4] For no man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world.
[7:5] For even his brethren did not believe on him.
[7:6] Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
[7:7] The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
[7:8] Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.
[7:9] And having said these things unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
[7:10] But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
[7:11] The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
[7:12] And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but he leadeth the multitude astray.
[7:13] Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
[7:14] But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
[7:15] The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
[7:16] Jesus therefore answered them, and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.
[7:17] If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.
[7:18] He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
[7:19] Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
[7:20] The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?
[7:21] Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because thereof.
[7:22] Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.
[7:23] If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?
[7:24] Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
A binding agreement or relationship between the divine and a people or individual, establishing mutual obligations.
The reference to Moses giving the law and the practice of circumcision as a covenant sign (7:19-23) invokes the Mosaic covenant relationship, though the passage uses it polemically rather than affirmatively.
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
Jesus's repeated assertion that 'my time is not yet come' and 'my time is not yet fulfilled' (7:6, 7:8) expresses a confident belief that divine timing governs the unfolding of events, and 'his that sent me' (7:16, 7:18) implies an active divine ordering behind the teaching.
The phenomenon where spiritual messengers or healers are rejected by their own community due to familiarity or lack of awe.
The passage is a concentrated example of this phenomenon: Jesus's own brethren do not believe in him (7:5), the Jews seek to kill him (7:1, 7:19), the crowd is divided and murmurs (7:12), and no one speaks openly of him for fear (7:13).
Critique of outward religious observance that lacks inner transformation; form without substance.
Jesus's challenge 'Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law?' (7:19) is a direct critique of outward religious observance that lacks inner fidelity to the law's intent.