#NewTestament #Biblestudy #john #john7 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] [[#🔗 Related Passages]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] --- ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) ### The Feast of Shelters 7 After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judeabecause the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him. 2 Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near. 3 So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing. 4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.) 6 So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity! 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil. 8 You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”9 When he had said this, he remained in Galilee. 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret. 11 So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?” 12 There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” 13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders. ### Teaching in the Temple 14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach. 15 Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”16 So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. 18 The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity,and there is no unrighteousness in him. 19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?” 20 The crowd answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?” 21 Jesus replied, “I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.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.” ### Questions About Jesus’ Identity 25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the manthey are trying to kill? 26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the ruling authorities really know that this man is the Christ? 27 But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christcomes, 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 dispersedamong 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’?” ### Teaching About the Spirit 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.) ### Differing Opinions About Jesus 40 When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This reallyis the Prophet!” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No,for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is _a descendant_ _of David_ and _comes_ _from Bethlehem_, the village where David lived?” 43 So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus. 44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. ### Lack of Belief 45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?” 46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 47 Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? 48 None of the members of the ruling council or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? 49 But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!” 50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers,said, 51 “Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?” 52 They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!” ### A Woman Caught in Adultery 53 And each one departed to his own house. --- ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary **Verse 37**: I have never really thought about how hard it would have been for Jesus to stand up in the middle of a crowd and start shouting an invitation to come to Him. People say now when criticizing those who claim to have the gift of healing, “If you have the gift of healing, why don’t you go empty out the hospital?” They seem to be saying that if they really have a gift, they should broadcast it. This is exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t hide what He was doing. He dared anyone who wanted what He had to come get it. --- ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - What is the main event or teaching? - Jesus is at the feast and still sparring with His enemies. - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - Jesus offers “rivers of living water” to all who come. This goes back to John 4. He is bringing transformation to anyone who will come to Him. - What stands out immediately? - Jesus speaks of the Living Water. - Jesus is defending by Nicodemus. This would mean their meeting must have had an impact. This is good to know because it does not indicate in John 3 what they outflow of the meeting was. Anything Apologetic to point out? - Jesus and the Holy Spirit work in concert together. - Jesus is Lord over the Sabbath. --- ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) **Today, I can apply this chapter by:** - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? --- ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) --- ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [Other Scripture that connects to this chapter] - 🔗 [Cross-references or thematic ties] Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 --- ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection Title: He Came to Us So We Could Run to Him - Scripture: (John 7:37) “On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!” - Observation: Jesus came to this Earth so that we could run to Him. We often forget that Christianity is not a daily “sap treatment.” We don’t lay back and let the Lord do all the work in our lives. He gives us the tools and works alongside us as we walk toward freedom. He does all the impossible, but gives us the opportunity to do all the possible. This process is a joy because we are able to grow in fellowship with Him through the process. Jesus came to this Earth so that we could come to Him.  - Application: Run to God every day and walk with Him through life.  - Prayer: “Thank You, Jesus, from coming to us so we could come to You.”  --- ## 📂 Tags