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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Boundaries of Canaan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Command the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.34.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern boundary will start in the east from the southern end of the Dead Sea, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.34.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.34.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Kinnereth</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.34.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Moses commanded the Israelites: &#8220;Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has ordered that it be given to the nine-and-a-half tribes, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These two-and-a-half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan across from Jericho, toward the sunrise.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.34.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;These are the names of the men who are to assign the land for you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And appoint one leader from each tribe to help assign the land. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These are their names:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="content">Caleb son of Jephunneh,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="content">from the tribe of Judah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Shemuel son of Ammihud,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.34.20"><span class="content">from the tribe of Simeon;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.34.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Elidad son of Kislon,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.34.21"><span class="content">from the tribe of Benjamin;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.34.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Bukki son of Jogli,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.34.22"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Dan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.34.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.34.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Hanniel son of Ephod,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.34.23"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.34.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.34.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Kemuel son of Shiphtan,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.34.24"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.34.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.34.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Elizaphan son of Parnak,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.34.25"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Zebulun;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.34.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.34.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Paltiel son of Azzan,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.34.26"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Issachar;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.34.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Ahihud son of Shelomi,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.34.27"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Asher;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.34.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Pedahel son of Ammihud,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.34.28"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Naphtali.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.34.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.34.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">These are the men the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded to assign the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">More Proverbs of Solomon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.25.2"><span class="content">to search out a matter is the glory of kings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.25.3"><span class="content">so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Remove the dross from the silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.25.4"><span class="content">and a silversmith can produce a vessel;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">remove wicked officials from the king&#8217;s presence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.25.5"><span class="content">and his throne will be established through righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not exalt yourself in the king&#8217;s presence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.25.6"><span class="content">and do not claim a place among his great men;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">it is better for him to say to you, &#8220;Come up here,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="content">than for him to humiliate you before his nobles.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="content">What you have seen with your eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">do not bring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">nobles / on whom you had set your eyes. / </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">Do not go</span></span></span><span class="content"> hastily to court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="content">for what will you do in the end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="content">if your neighbor puts you to shame?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you take your neighbor to court,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.25.9"><span class="content">do not betray another&#8217;s confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">or the one who hears it may shame you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.25.10"><span class="content">and the charge against you will stand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Like apples</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:11 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">apricots</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold in settings of silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.25.11"><span class="content">is a ruling rightly given.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.25.12"><span class="content">is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="content">is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="content">he refreshes the spirit of his master.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Like clouds and wind without rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.25.14"><span class="content">is one who boasts of gifts never given.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.25.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Through patience a ruler can be persuaded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.25.15"><span class="content">and a gentle tongue can break a bone.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If you find honey, eat just enough&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.25.16"><span class="content">too much of it, and you will vomit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Seldom set foot in your neighbor&#8217;s house&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.25.17"><span class="content">too much of you, and they will hate you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.25.18"><span class="content">is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.25.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Like a broken tooth or a lame foot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.25.19"><span class="content">is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="content">or like vinegar poured on a wound,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="content">is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.25.21"><span class="content">if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.25.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.25.22"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will reward you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.25.23"><span class="content">is a sly tongue&#8212;which provokes a horrified look.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.25.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Better to live on a corner of the roof</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.25.24"><span class="content">than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.25.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Like cold water to a weary soul</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.25.25"><span class="content">is good news from a distant land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.25.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Like a muddied spring or a polluted well</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.25.26"><span class="content">are the righteous who give way to the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.25.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">It is not good to eat too much honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.25.27"><span class="content">nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.25.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Like a city whose walls are broken through</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.25.28"><span class="content">is a person who lacks self-control.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:1 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">not have authority</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus&#8217; brothers said to him, &#8220;Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For even his own brothers did not believe in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore Jesus told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My time is not yet here; for you any time will do.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You go to the festival. I am not</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">not yet</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, &#8220;Where is he?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, &#8220;He is a good man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.7.12"><span class="content">Others replied, &#8220;No, he deceives the people.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Teaches at the Festival</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Jews there were amazed and asked, &#8220;How did this man get such learning without having been taught?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are demon-possessed,&#8221; the crowd answered. &#8220;Who is trying to kill you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man&#8217;s whole body on the Sabbath?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Division Over Who Jesus Is</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the man they are trying to kill? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.7.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, &#8220;When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.7.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.7.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.7.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.7.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The Jews said to one another, &#8220;Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.7.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">What did he mean when he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;You will look for me, but you will not find me,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> and </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Where I am, you cannot come&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.7.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.7.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.7.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:37,38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">me. And let anyone drink </span><span class="fv">38 </span><span class="fqa">who believes in me.&#8221; As Scripture has said, &#8220;Out of him </span><span class="ft">(or </span><span class="fqa">them</span><span class="ft">) </span><span class="fqa">will flow rivers of living water.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.7.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.7.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.7.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">On hearing his words, some of the people said, &#8220;Surely this man is the Prophet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.7.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.7.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Others said, &#8220;He is the Messiah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.7.41"><span class="content">Still others asked, &#8220;How can the Messiah come from Galilee? </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.7.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David&#8217;s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.7.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.7.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.7.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.7.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you bring him in?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.7.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.7.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">&#8220;No one ever spoke the way this man does,&#8221; the guards replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.7.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.7.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">&#8220;You mean he has deceived you also?&#8221; the Pharisees retorted. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.7.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.7.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law&#8212;there is a curse on them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.7.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.7.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.7.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">&#8220;Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.7.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JHN.7.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="iex"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JHN.7.52"><span class="content">[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have </span><span class="content">John 7:53&#8212;8:11</span><span class="content">. A few manuscripts include these verses, wholly or in part, after </span><span class="content">John 7:36</span><span class="content">, </span><span class="content">John 21:25</span><span class="content">, </span><span class="content">Luke 21:38</span><span class="content"> or </span><span class="content">Luke 24:53</span><span class="content">.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JHN.7.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JHN.7.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">Then they all went home,</span></span></span></div>
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