John 7:1-24 ▼

1 After these thynges, Iesus went about in Galilee: For he would not go about in Iurie, because that the Iewes sought to kyll hym.

2 The Iewes feaste of tabernacles was at hande.

3 His brethren therfore sayde vnto him: Get thee hence, and go into Iurie, that thy disciples also may see thy workes that thou doest.

4 For there is no man that doeth any thyng in secrete, and he hym selfe seketh to be knowen openly. Yf thou do suche thynges, shewe thy selfe to the worlde.

5 For his brethren beleued not in hym.

6 Then Iesus sayde vnto them, My tyme is not yet come: but your tyme is alway redy.

7 The worlde can not hate you, but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes therof are euyll.

8 Go ye vp vnto this feast: I wyll not go vp yet vnto this feast, for my tyme is not yet full come.

9 When he had saide these wordes vnto them, he abode styll in Galilee.

10 But assoone as his brethre were gone vp, then went he also vp vnto the feaste, not openly, but as it were priuilie.

11 Then sought hym the Iewes at the feaste, and sayde, where is he?

12 And much murmuryng of hym was there among the people: For some said, he is good: other sayde, nay, but he deceaueth the people.

13 Howebeit, no man spake openlye of hym, for feare of the Iewes.

14 Nowe when halfe of the feast was done, Iesus went vp into the temple, and taught.

15 And the Iewes marueyled, saying: howe knoweth he the scriptures, seyng that he neuer learned?

16 Iesus aunswered them, & sayde: My doctrine is not myne, but his yt sent me.

17 Yf any man wyll do his wyll, he shall knowe of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe.

18 He that speaketh of hym selfe, seketh his owne praise: But he that seketh his praise that sent hym, the same is true, & no vnryghteousnes is in hym.

19 Dyd not Moyses geue you a lawe, & yet none of you kepeth the lawe? Why go ye about to kyll me?

20 The people aunswered and sayde: Thou hast the deuyll, who goeth about to kyll thee?

21 Iesus aunswered, & said vnto the: I haue done one worke, & ye al marueyle.

22 Moyses therefore gaue vnto you the circumcisio (not because it is of Moyses, but of the fathers) And yet ye on the Sabboth day, circumcise a man.

23 Yf a man on the Sabboth day receaue circumcision, without breakyng of the lawe of Moyses: disdayne ye at me, because I haue made a man euerywhyt whole on the Sabboth day?

24 Iudge not after the vtter appearaunce, but iudge with a ryghteous iudgement.