### Douay Rheims Bible

John 6

## The Gospel According to Saint John

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| # Chapter 7
#### 1 | After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
#### 2 | Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
#### 3 | And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence, and go into Judea; that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.
#### 4 | For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.
#### 5 | For neither did his brethren believe in him.
#### 6 | Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
#### 7 | The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil.
#### 8 | Go you up to this festival day, but I go not up to this festival day: because my time is not accomplished.
#### 9 | When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.
#### 10 | But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.
#### 11 | The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day, and said: Where is he?
#### 12 | And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people.
#### 13 | Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.
#### 14 | Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
#### 15 | And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?
#### 16 | Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
#### 17 | If any man do the will of him; he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
#### 18 | He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him.
#### 19 | Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?
#### 20 | Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered, and said: Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?
#### 21 | Jesus answered, and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder:
#### 22 | Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.
#### 23 | If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?
#### 24 | Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.
#### 25 | Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
#### 26 | And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth, that this is the Christ?
#### 27 | But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
#### 28 | Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching, and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself; but he that sent me, is true, whom you know not.
#### 29 | I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me.
#### 30 | They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
#### 31 | But of the people many believed in him, and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles, than these which this man doth?
#### 32 | The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.
#### 33 | Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me.
#### 34 | You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.
#### 35 | The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
#### 36 | What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, you cannot come?
#### 37 | And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.
#### 38 | He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
#### 39 | Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive, who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
#### 40 | Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.
#### 41 | Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?
#### 42 | Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was?
#### 43 | So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.
#### 44 | And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him.
#### 45 | The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?
#### 46 | The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.
#### 47 | The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?
#### 48 | Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
#### 49 | But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.
#### 50 | Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to him by night, who was one of them:)
#### 51 | Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?
#### 52 | They answered, and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see, that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.
#### 53 | And every man returned to his own house.

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