Catholic Public Domain Version

John 7:16-28 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

16. Jesus responded to them and said: "My doctrine is not of me, but of him who sent me.

17. If anyone has chosen to do his will, then he will realize, about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking from myself.

18. Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But whoever seeks the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and injustice is not in him.

19. Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one among you keeps the law!

20. Why are you seeking to kill me?" The crowd responded and said: "You must have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?"

21. Jesus responded and said to them: "One work have I done, and you all wonder.

22. For Moses gave you circumcision, (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

23. If a man can receive circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you indignant toward me, because I have made a man whole on the Sabbath?

24. Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment."

25. Therefore, some of those from Jerusalem said: "Is he not the one whom they are seeking to kill?

26. And behold, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Could the leaders have decided that it is true this one is the Christ?

27. But we know him and where he is from. And when the Christ has arrived, no one will know where he is from."

28. Therefore, Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: "You know me, and you also know where I am from. And I have not arrived of myself, but he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.