João 7

1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. 3 His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. 4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." 5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

6 Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" 12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." 13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. 14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

16 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself. 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 19 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

20 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

21 Jesus answered them, "I did one work and you all marvel because of it. 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? 24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 27 However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. 29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 34 You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am."

35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?"

37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." 41 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring*7:42 or, seed of David,✝7:42 2 Samuel 7:12 and from Bethlehem,✝7:42 Micah 5:2 the village where David was?" 43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him. 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, "Why didn’t you bring him?"

46 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren’t also led astray, are you? 48 Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed."

50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, 51 "Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

52 They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."✝7:52 See Isaiah 9:1; Matthew 4:13-16

53 Everyone went to his own house,

Ko Īhu me Ōna Tēina

1 I muri i ēnei mea ka hāereere a Īhu i Karirī; kāhore hoki ia i pai ki te hāereere i Hūria, e rapu ana hoki ngā Hūrai kia whakamatea ia. 2 Nā, kua tata te hākari a ngā Hūrai, te Hākari Whare Wharau. 3 Nā, ka mea ōna tēina ki a ia, "Haere atu i konei, anga atu ki Hūria, kia kite ai hoki āu ākonga i āu mahi e mahi nei koe. 4 E kore hoki tētahi tangata e mea huna i tētahi mea, ki te whai ia kia ara tōna ingoa. Ki te mea koe i ēnei mea, kia kite te ao i a koe." 5 (Ko ōna tēina tonu hoki kīhai i whakapono ki a ia.)

6 Nā, ka mea a Īhu ki a rātou, "Kāhore anō kia taea noatia tōku tāima; ko tō koutou tāima ia kei ngā wā katoa. 7 E kore e āhei kia kino te ao ki a koutou; engari ka kino ki ahau, nō te mea e whakaaturia ana e ahau te kino o āna mahi. 8 Haere koutou ki tēnei hākari; e kore ahau e haere wawe ki tēnei hākari; kāhore hoki tōku tāima kia āta rite noa." 9 Ā, ka mutu tēnei kōrero āna ki a rātou, ka noho tonu ia ki Karirī.

Ko Īhu i te Hākari Wharau

10 Ā, nō ka riro ōna tēina ki te hākari, ka haere anō hoki ia, ehara i te mea whakakite nui, engari i tū-ā-huna. 11 Heoi, i rapu ngā Hūrai i a ia i te hākari, i mea, "Kei hea ia?"

12 He nui hoki te kōrero kōmuhumuhu mōna i roto i te mano. Ko ētahi i mea, "He tangata pai ia," ko ētahi i mea, "Kāhore, engari e whakapōhēhē ana ia i te iwi." 13 Heoi, kīhai i rahi te kōrero a tētahi tangata mōna, he wehi ki ngā Hūrai.

14 Nā, i waenganui o te hākari, ka haere a Īhu ki roto ki te temepara whakaako ai. 15 Ā, ka mīharo ngā Hūrai, ka mea, "Nā te aha i hua ai te mōhio o tēnei tangata, ehara nei hoki ia i te mea whakaako?"

16 Ka whakahoki a Īhu ki a rātou, ka mea, "Ehara i te mea nāku ake tāku e whakaako nei, engari, nā tōku kaitono mai. 17 Ki te pai tētahi tangata ki te mea i tāna e pai ai, e mātau ia ki te whakaakoranga, nā te Atua rānei, he kōrero nāku ake rānei. 18 Ko te tangata nāna ake tāna kōrero, e whai ana ia i tōna ake korōria; tēnā ki te whai tētahi i te korōria o tōna kaitono, e pono ana ia, ā, kāhore ōna hē. 19 He teka ianei nā Mohi te ture i hoatu ki a koutou, ā, kāhore e whakaritea te ture e tētahi o koutou? He aha koutou ka whai nei kia whakamatea ahau?"

20 Nā, ka whakahoki te mano ka mea, "He rēwera tōu! Ko wai te whai ana kia whakamatea koe?"

21 Ka whakahoki a Īhu, ka mea ki a rātou, "Kotahi āku mahi i mahi ai, ā, e mīharotia ana e koutou katoa. 22 I hōmai e Mohi te kotinga ki a koutou (ehara anō ia i te mea nā Mohi ake, engari nā ngā tūpuna), e kokoti ana hoki koutou i te tangata i te hāpati. 23 Ki te kotia te tangata i te hāpati, kei takahia te ture a Mohi; e riri ana oti koutou ki ahau, mōku i whakaora rawa i te tangata i te hāpati? 24 Kaua e waiho te whakawā i runga i tā te kanohi, engari kia tika tā koutou whakawā."

Ko Ia te Karaiti?

25 Me i reira ka mea ētahi o ngā tāngata o Hiruhārama, "Ehara oti tēnei i a ia e whāia nei e rātou kia whakamatea? 26 Nā, māia tonu tāna kōrero, ā, kāhore ā rātou kupu ki a ia. E tino mātau ana rānei ngā rangatira, ko te Karaiti pū tēnei? 27 Otiia, e mātau ana tātou ki te wāhi i puta mai ai tēnei; tēnā ka tae mai a te Karaiti, kāhore he tangata e mātau ki te wāhi e puta mai ai ia."

28 Nā, ka karanga a Īhu i te temepara i a ia e whakaako ana, ka mea, "E mātau ana koutou ki ahau, e mātau ana anō ki te wāhi i haere mai ai ahau. Ehara i ahau ake tāku haere mai, engari, e pono ana te kaitono mai i ahau; kāhore nei koutou i mātau ki a ia. 29 E mātau ana ahau ki a ia; i puta mai hoki ahau i a ia, nāna anō ahau i tono mai."

30 Ā, i whai rātou kia hopukia ia; otiia, kīhai i pā te ringa o tētahi ki a ia, kāhore hoki tōna hāora i taka noa. 31 Ā, he tokomaha o te mano whakapono ki a ia, i mea, "Ka tae mai a te Karaiti, tērā rānei e maha atu āna merekara e mea ai i a tēnei e mea nei?"

Ka Tonoa atu ngā Kaitiaki kia Hopu i a Īhu

32 I rongo ngā Parihi i te mano e kōrerorero ana i ēnei mea mōna; nā, ka tonoa mai e ngā Parihi rātou ko ngā tohunga nui he kātipa ki te hopu i a ia.

33 Nā, ka mea a Īhu ki a rātou, "He iti noa ake te wāhi e noho ai ahau ki a koutou, kātahi ahau ka haere ki tōku kaitono mai. 34 Tērā koutou e rapu i ahau, heoi, e kore koutou e kite; e kore hoki koutou e āhei te haere ake ki te wāhi e noho ai ahau."

35 Nā, ka mea ngā Hūrai ki a rātou anō, "E haere oti te tangata nei ki hea, e kore ai e kitea e tātou? E haere oti ia ki ngā manene i roto i ngā Kariki, ako ai i ngā Kariki? 36 He kī aha tēnei e kī nei ia, ‘Tērā koutou e rapu i ahau, ā, e kore e kite. E kore hoki koutou e āhei te haere ake ki te wāhi e noho ai ahau’?"

Ngā Awa o te Wai Ora

37 I te rā whakamutunga, i te rā nui o te hākari, ka tū a Īhu, ka karanga, ka mea, "Ki te matewai tētahi, haere mai ia ki ahau, kia inu. 38 Ki te whakapono tētahi ki ahau, ka rite ki tā te karaipiture, ‘ka rere mai ngā wai ora i roto i tōna kōpū.’ " 39 I kōrerotia tēnei e ia mō te Wairua, meāke nei riro i te hunga e whakapono ana ki a ia; kāhore anō hoki te Wairua Tapu kia hōmai noa; nō te mea kīanō a Īhu i whakakorōriatia noatia.

He Wehenga i Waenganui i ngā Tāngata

40 Ko ētahi o te mano i tō rātou rongonga i tēnei kupu, i mea, "He pono ko te Poropiti tēnei."

41 Ka mea ētahi, "Ko te Karaiti tēnei."

Ko ētahi i mea, "E puta mai rānei a te Karaiti i Karirī? 42 Kāhore koia te karaipiture i mea, e puta mai a te Karaiti i te uri o Rāwiri, i Pēterehema, i te kāinga i noho ai a Rāwiri?" 43 Nā, ka waiho ia hei take wehewehenga mā te mano. 44 Ko ētahi o rātou i mea kia hopukia ia; otirā, kīhai i pā ngā ringa o tētahi ki a ia.

Te Whakapono kore o ngā Rangatira Hūrai

45 Nā, ko te taenga atu o ngā kātipa ki ngā tohunga nui rātou ko ngā Parihi; ka mea atu ēnei ki a rātou, "He aha ia tē kawea mai ai e koutou?"

46 Ka whakahokia e ngā kātipa, "Kāhore rawa he tangata i rite āna kōrero ki a tēnei."

47 Nā, ka whakahokia tā rātou e ngā Parihi, "Kua tinihangatia anō hoki koutou? 48 Kua whakapono koia tētahi o ngā rangatira, o ngā Parihi rānei ki a ia? 49 Ko tēnei hunga ia e kore nei e mātau ki te ture, ka oti rātou te kanga."

50 Ka mea a Nikorima ki a rātou, tērā i haere mai rā ki a ia i mua, ko ia hoki tētahi o rātou, 51 "Ka whakahēngia rānei te tangata e tō tātou ture, i te mea kāhore anō i whakarongo noa ki a ia, i mātau hoki ki tāna mahi?"

52 Nā, ka whakahoki rātou, ka mea ki a ia, "Ko koe hoki tētahi nō Karirī? Tēnā rapua, ka kite koe, kāhore kia ara noa tētahi poropiti i Karirī."

53 Nā, hoki ana rātou ki tōna whare, ki tōna whare.