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The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To John Chapter 7
2 Christ, after his cousins were gone up
to the feast of Tabernacles,
10 goeth thither privily.
12 The people's sundry opinions of him.
14 He teacheth in the Temple.
32 The Priests command to take him.
41 Strife among the multitude about him,
47 and between the Pharisees and the
officers that were sent to take him,
50 and Nicodemus.
1 After these things, Jesus walked in
Galilee, and would not walk in Judea,
for the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Now the Jews' (*) (a) () feast of the
Tabernacles was at hand.
(*) Leviticus 23:34 .
(a) This feast was so called, because of
the booths and tents which they pight of
divers kinds of boughs, and sat under
them seven days together, all which time
the feast lasted.
() At this feast they dwelled seven days
in the tents, which put them in
remembrance, that they had no city here
permanent, but that they must seek one
to come.
3 (1) His brethren therefore said unto
him, Depart hence, and go into Judea,
that thy disciples may see thy works
that thou doest.
(1) The grace of God cometh not by
inheritance, but it is a gift that cometh
other ways, whereby it cometh to pass,
that often times the children of God
suffer more affliction by their own
kinsfolk than by strangers.
4 For there is no man that doeth
anything secretly, and he himself seeketh
to be (*) famous.
If thou doest these things, shew thyself
to the world.
(*) Or, manifest.
5 For as yet his (b) brethren believed
not in him.
(b) His kinsfolk's, for so used the
Hebrews to speak.
6 (2) Then Jesus said unto them, My
time is not yet come, but your time is
alway ready.
(2) We must not follow the foolish desires
of our friends.
7 The world cannot hate you, but me it
hateth, (*) because I testify of it, that the
works thereof are evil.
(*) Why the world hateth Christ.
8 Go ye up unto this feast; I will () not
go up yet unto this feast, (*) for my time
is not yet fulfilled.
() Christ doeth not utterly deny that he
would go to the feast, but signifieth that
as yet he was not fully determined.
(*) John 8:20 .
9 ¶ These things he said unto them, and
abode still in Galilee.
10 (3) But as soon as his brethren were
gone up, then went he also up unto the
feast, not openly, but as it were privily.
(3) An example of horrible confusion in
the very bosom of the Church.
The Pastors oppress the people with terrors
and fear; the people seek Christ, when he
appeareth not; when he offereth himself,
they neglect him.
Some also that know him condemn him
rashly, a very few think well of him, and that
in secret.
11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast,
and said, Where is he?
12 And much murmuring was there of him
among the people.
Some said, He is a good man; others said,
Nay, but he deceiveth the people.
13 Howbeit no man spake (c) openly
of him for fear of the (*) Jews.
(c) Or, boldly, and freely; for the chief
of the Jews sought nothing so much, as
to bury his fame and name.
(*) These were the heads of the people
who did envy Christ.
14 (4) Now when (d) half the feast was
done, Jesus went up into the Temple,
and taught.
(4) Christ striveth with goodness against
the wickedness of the world, in the mean
season the most part of men take occasion
of offence even by that fame, whereby
they ought to have been stirred up to
embrace Christ.
(d) About the fourth day of the feast.
15 And the Jews marveled, saying, How
knoweth this man the (*) Scriptures,
seeing that he never learned?
(*) Or, letters.
16 (5) Jesus answered them, and said,
(e) My doctrine is not (*) mine, but
his that sent me.
(5) Therefore are there few to whom the
Gospel favoreth well, because the study
of godliness is very rare.
(e) Look above in
John 5:22;
and he speaketh this after the opinion of
the Jews, as if he said, My doctrine is
not mine, that is, it is not his whom you
take to be a man as others are, and
therefore set light by him, but it is his that
sent me.
(*) In that, that he is man only.
17 If any man will do his will, he shall
know of the doctrine, whether it be
of God, or whether I speak of myself.
18 (6) He (*) that speaketh of himself,
seeketh his own glory; but he that
seeketh his glory that sent him, the same
is true, and no () unrighteousness is in
him.
(6) The true doctrine of salvation differeth
from the false in this, that the same setteth
forth the glory of God, and this by puffing
up of men darkeneth the glory of God.
(*) By this mark we may know whether
the doctrine be of God, or of man.
() Nothing counterfeit or untrue.
19 (*) (7) Did not Moses give you a
Law, and yet none of you keepeth the
Law?
() Why go ye about to kill me?
(*) Exodus 24:3 .
(7) None do more confidently boast
themselves to be the defenders of the
Law of God, than they that do most
impudently break it.
() John 5:18 .
20 The (*) people answered, and said,
Thou hast a devil, who goeth about to
kill thee?
(*) Who did not know the fetch of the
Scribes.
21 (8) Jesus answered, and said unto
them, I have done one work, and ye all
(*) marvel.
(8) The Sabbath day
(which is here set before us for a rule
of all ceremonies)
was not appointed to hinder but to further
and practice God's works, amongst which
the love of our neighbor is the chiefest.
(*) Because I did it on the Sabbath day.
22 (*) Moses therefore gave unto you
circumcision,
(not because it is of Moses, but of the
() fathers)
and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a
man.
(*) Leviticus 12:3 .
() Genesis 17:10 .
23 If a man on the Sabbath receive
circumcision, that the (f) Law of Moses
should not be broken, be ye angry with
me, because I have made a man every
whit whole on the Sabbath day?
(f) That is to say, if the law of circumcision
which Moses gave, be of so great account
amongst you, that you doubt not to
circumcise upon the Sabbath, do you
rightly reprove me for healing a man
thoroughly?
24 (*) (9) Judge not (g) according to
the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
(*) Deuteronomy 1:16 .
(9) We must judge according to the truth
of things, lest the persons of men do turn
us and carry us away.
(g) By the shew that I make, for I seem
to be but an abject and rabble of Galilee,
and a carpenter's son, whom no man
maketh account of; but mark the matter
itself well, and judge the tree by the fruit.
25 ¶ (10) Then said some of them of
Jerusalem, Is not this he whom they go
about to kill?
(10) Many do marvel that the endeavors
of the enemies of God have no success;
yet in the mean season they do not
acknowledge the virtue and power of
God.
26 And behold, he speaketh (*) openly,
and they say nothing to him.
Do the rulers know indeed that this is
the very Christ?
(*) Or, freely.
27 (11) Howbeit we know this man
whence he is; but when the Christ cometh,
no man shall know whence he is.
(11) Men are very wise to procure stops
and stays to themselves.
28 ¶ (12) Then cried Jesus in the Temple
as he taught, saying, Ye (*) both know
me, and know whence I am; yet am I
not come of myself, but he that sent me,
is true, whom ye know not.
(12) The truth of Christ doeth not hang
upon the judgment of man.
(*) He speaketh this, as it were scornfully.
29 But I know him, for I am of him,
and he hath sent me.
30 (13) Then they sought to take him,
but no man laid hands on him, because
his hour was not yet come.
(13) The wicked cannot do what they
list, but what God hath appointed.
31 Now many of the people (*) believed
in him, and said, When the Christ cometh,
will he do more miracles than this man hath
done?
(*) They were well minded to hear him;
which preparation is here called
(although properly) faith.
32 (14) The Pharisees heard that the
people murmured these things of him,
and the Pharisees, and high Priests sent
officers to take him.
(14) As the kingdom of God increaseth,
so increaseth the rage of his enemies, till
at length they in vain seek for those
blessings absent, which they despised
when they were present.
33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet am I
(*) a little while with you, and then go I
unto him that sent me.
(*) He sheweth unto them that they have
no power over him until the time comes
that his Father hath ordained.
34 (*) Ye shall seek me, and shall not find
me, and where I () am, can ye not come.
(*) John 13:33 .
() Or, shall be.
35 Then said the Jews among themselves,
Whither will he go, that we shall not find
him?
Will he go unto them that are
(h) (*) dispersed among the () Grecians,
and teach the Grecians?
(h) Word for word,
(to the dispersion of the Gentiles or
Grecians)
and under the name of the Grecians
he understandeth Jews which were
dispersed amongst the Gentiles.
(*) Greek, dispersion.
() Among the Jews which were scattered
here and there among the Gentiles.
36 What saying is this that he said, Ye
shall seek me, and shall not find me?
And where I am, can ye not come?
37 (15) Now in the (i) last and (*) great
day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,
saying, If any man thirst, let him come
unto me, and drink.
(15) There are two principles of our
salvation; the one is to be thoroughly
touched with a true feeling of our extreme
poverty; the other to seek in Christ only
(whom we catch hold on by faith)
the abundance of all good things.
(i) The last day of the feast of Tabernacles,
that as, the eighth day, was as high a day,
as the first.
(*) Leviticus 23:5 .
38 He that () believeth in me, (*) as saith
the (k) Scripture, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of water () of life.
() The true way to come to Christ is by
faith.
(*) Deuteronomy 18:15 .
(k) This is not read word for word in any
place, but it seemeth to be taken out of
many places where mention is made of
the gifts of the holy Ghost, as in
Joel 2; Isaiah 44;
but especially in Isaiah 55 .
() Which shall never dry up.
39 (*) This spake he of the Spirit, which
they that believed in him, should receive;
for the (l) () holy Ghost was not yet given,
because that Jesus was not yet
(m) glorified.)
(*) Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17 .
(l) What is meant by the holy Ghost, he
expressed a little before, speaking of the
Spirit which they that believed in him
should receive.
So that by the name of holy Ghost, are
meant the virtues and mighty workings
of the holy Ghost.
() These were the visible graces, which
were given to the Apostles after his
ascension.
(m) That is, those things were not yet seen
and perceived, which were to shew and
set forth the glory of the only begotten.
40 (16) So many of the people, when they
heard this saying, said, (*) Of a truth this
is the () Prophet;
(16) There is contention even in the
Church itself about the chief point of
religion; neither hath Christ any more
cruel enemies than those that occupy the
seat of truth; yet can they not do what
they would.
(*) Deuteronomy 18:15 .
() They looked for some notable Prophet
besides the Messiah,
John 1:21 .
41 Others said, This is the Christ.
And some said, But shall Christ come
out of Galilee?
42 (*) Saith not the Scripture that Christ
shall come of the seed of David, and out
of the town of Bethlehem, where David
was?
(*) Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5 .
43 So was there dissension among the
people for him.
44 And some of them would have taken
him, but no man laid hands on him.
45 (17) Then came the officers to the
high Priests and Pharisees, and they
said unto them, Why have ye not
brought him?
(17) God from heaven scorneth such
as are his son's enemies.
46 The officers answered, (*) Never
a man spake like this man.
(*) Wherein appeareth the mighty power
of Christ's word against his enemies.
47 Then answered them the Pharisees,
Are ye also deceived?
48 (18) Doeth any of the (*) rulers, or
any of the Pharisees believe in him?
(18) False Pastors are so fond and foolish
that they esteem the Church of God
according to the multitude and outward
shew.
(*) They allege the authority of man
against God's authority.
49 But this people, which know not the
Law, are cursed.
50 Nicodemus said unto them,
(*) ( he that came to Jesus by night,
and was one of them.)
(*) John 3:2 .
51 Doth our Law judge a man before
it hear him, (*) and know (n) what he
hath done?
(*) Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 19:15 .
(n) What he hath committed, who is accused.
52 They answered, and said unto him,
Art thou also of Galilee?
Search and look, for out of Galilee ariseth
no Prophet.
53 (19) And every man went unto his
own house.
(19) There is no counsel against the Lord.
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