7:20 The crowd ¹¹  answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! ¹²  Who is trying to kill you?” ¹³  7:21 Jesus replied, ¹⁴  “I performed one miracle ¹⁵  and you are all amazed. ¹⁶  7:22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision ¹⁷  (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child ¹⁸  on the Sabbath. 7:23 But if a male child ¹⁹  is circumcised ²⁰  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ²¹  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ²²  on the Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge according to external appearance, ²³  but judge with proper ²⁴  judgment.”

7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem ²⁵  began to say, “Isn’t this the man ²⁶  they are trying ²⁷  to kill? 7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, ²⁸  and they are saying nothing to him. ²⁹  Do the rulers really know that this man ³⁰  is the Christ? ³¹  7:27 But we know where this man ³²  comes from. ³³  Whenever the Christ ³⁴  comes, no one will know where he comes from.” ³⁵ 

7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, ³⁶  cried out, ³⁷  “You both know me and know where I come from! ³⁸  And I have not come on my own initiative, ³⁹  but the one who sent me ⁴⁰  is true. You do not know him, ⁴¹  7:29 but ⁴²  I know him, because I have come from him ⁴³  and he ⁴⁴  sent me.”

7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, ⁴⁵  but no one laid a hand on him, because his time ⁴⁶  had not yet come. 7:31 Yet many of the crowd ⁴⁷  believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ ⁴⁸  comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” ⁴⁹ 

7:32 The Pharisees ⁵⁰  heard the crowd ⁵¹  murmuring these things about Jesus, ⁵²  so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers ⁵³  to arrest him. ⁵⁴  7:33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, ⁵⁵  and then ⁵⁶  I am going to the one who sent me. 7:34 You will look for me ⁵⁷  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

7:35 Then the Jewish leaders ⁵⁸  said to one another, “Where is he ⁵⁹  going to go that we cannot find him? ⁶⁰  He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed ⁶¹  among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? ⁶²  7:36 What did he mean by saying, ⁶³  ‘You will look for me ⁶⁴  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

7:37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, ⁶⁵  Jesus stood up and shouted out, ⁶⁶  “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 7:38 let the one who believes in me drink. ⁶⁷  Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him ⁶⁸  will flow rivers of living water.’” ⁶⁹  7:39 (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, ⁷⁰  because Jesus was not yet glorified.) ⁷¹