Catholic Public Domain Version

John 7:8-25 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. You may go up to this feast day. But I am not going up to this feast day, because my time has not yet been fulfilled."

9. When he had said these things, he himself remained in Galilee.

10. But after his brothers went up, then he also went up to the feast day, not openly, but as if in secret.

11. Therefore, the Jews were seeking him on the feast day, and they were saying, "Where is he?"

12. And there was much murmuring in the crowd concerning him. For certain ones were saying, "He is good." But others were saying, "No, for he seduces the crowds."

13. Yet no one was speaking openly about him, out of fear of the Jews.

14. Then, about the middle of the feast, Jesus ascended into the temple, and he was teaching.

15. And the Jews wondered, saying: "How does this one know letters, though he has not been taught?"

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?