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John 7 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:1 - After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:2 - But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:3 - So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:4 - Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:5 - For even his brothers had no belief in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:6 - Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:7 - It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:8 - Go you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:9 - Having said these things to them, he still kept in Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:10 - But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:11 - At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:12 - And there was much discussion about him among the mass of the people. Some said, He is a good man; but others said, No, he is giving people false ideas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:13 - But no man said anything about him openly for fear of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:14 - Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:15 - Then the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He has never been to school.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:16 - Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:17 - If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:18 - The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:19 - Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:20 - The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:21 - This was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:22 - Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:23 - If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:24 - Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:25 - Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is desired?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:26 - And here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:27 - However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:28 - Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:29 - I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:30 - Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:31 - And numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes will he do more signs than this man has done?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:32 - This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:33 - Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:34 - You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:35 - So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:36 - What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:37 - On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:38 - He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:39 - This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:40 - When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:41 - Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:42 - Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:43 - So there was a division among the people because of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:44 - And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:45 - Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:46 - The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:47 - Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:48 - Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:49 - But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:50 - Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:51 - Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:52 - This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:53 - [And every man went to his house;
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