From: abvax!ALF.CS.HH.AB.COM!BENNING
Newsgroups: alt.messianic
Subject: NCS-- John 7:1-53
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 8:33:24 -0500 (EST)


                       JOHN 7:1-53
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  JESUS GOES TO THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
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John 7:1 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying
away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life.

John 7:2 But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near,

John 7:3 Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go
to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do.

John 7:4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret.
Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

John 7:5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

John 7:6 Therefore Jesus told them, "The right time for me has not yet
come; for you any time is right.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify
that what it does is evil.

John 7:8 You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast,
because for me the right time has not yet come."

John 7:9 Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.

John 7:10 However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went
also, not publicly, but in secret.

John 7:11 Now at the Feast the Jews were watching for him and asking,
"Where is that man?"

John 7:12 Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him.
Some said, "He is a good man." Others replied, "No, he deceives the
people."

John 7:13 But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of
the Jews.


  JESUS TEACHES AT THE FEAST
  ==========================

John 7:14 Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the
temple courts and begin to teach.

John 7:15 The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such
learning without having studied?"

John 7:16 Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from
him who sent me.

John 7:17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether
my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

John 7:18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself,
but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of
truth; there is nothing false about him.

John 7:19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps
the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

John 7:20 "You are demon-possessed," the crowd answered. "Who is
trying to kill you?"

John 7:21 Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all
astonished.

John 7:22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it
did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a
child on the Sabbath.

John 7:23 Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the
law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing
the whole man on the Sabbath?

John 7:24 Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right
judgment."


  IS JESUS THE MESSIAH?
  =====================

John 7:25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask,
"Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

John 7:26 Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a
word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the
Christ?

John 7:27 But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes,
no one will know where he is from."

John 7:28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out,
"Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my
own, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,

John 7:29 but I know him because I am from him and he sent me."

John 7:30 At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on
him, because his time had not yet come.

John 7:31 Still, many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said,
"When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this
man?"

John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about
him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to
arrest him.

John 7:33 Jesus said, "I am with you for only a short time, and then I
go to the one who sent me.

John 7:34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I
am, you cannot come."

John 7:35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to
go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered
among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

John 7:36 What did he mean when he said, 'You will look for me, but
you will not find me,' and'Where I am, you cannot come'?"

John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and
said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and
drink.

John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams
of living water will flow from within him."

John 7:39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him
were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given,
since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

John 7:40 On hearing his words, some of the people said, "Surely this
man is the Prophet."

John 7:41 Others said, "He is the Christ." Still others asked, "How
can the Christ come from Galilee?

John 7:42 Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from
David's family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?"

John 7:43 Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.

John 7:44 Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.


  UNBELIEF OF THE JEWISH LEADERS
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John 7:45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and
Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?"

John 7:46 "No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards
declared.

John 7:47 "You mean he has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted.

John 7:48 "Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

John 7:49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law--there is a
curse on them."

John 7:50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of
their own number, asked,

John 7:51 "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to
find out what he is doing?"

John 7:52 They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and
you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee."

John 7:53   Then each went to his own home.


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