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John 7:22-39 New English Translation (NET)

22. However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

23. But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

24. Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”

25. Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

26. Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

27. But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

28. Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

29. but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

30. So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

31. Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”

32. The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

33. Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

34. You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

35. Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

36. What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

37. On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

38. let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

39. (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

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