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    "chapter": 7
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  "data": {
    "n": 7,
    "bookSlug": "john",
    "bookCode": "JHN",
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    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JHN-7:1",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.1",
        "text": "And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JHN-7:2",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.2",
        "text": "Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JHN-7:3",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.3",
        "text": "His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works which thou doest."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JHN-7:4",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.4",
        "text": "For no man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JHN-7:5",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.5",
        "text": "For even his brethren did not believe on him."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JHN-7:6",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.6",
        "text": "Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JHN-7:7",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.7",
        "text": "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JHN-7:8",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.8",
        "text": "Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JHN-7:9",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.9",
        "text": "And having said these things unto them, he abode [still] in Galilee."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JHN-7:10",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.10",
        "text": "But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JHN-7:11",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.11",
        "text": "The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JHN-7:12",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.12",
        "text": "And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but he leadeth the multitude astray."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JHN-7:13",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.13",
        "text": "Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JHN-7:14",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.14",
        "text": "But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JHN-7:15",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.15",
        "text": "The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JHN-7:16",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.16",
        "text": "Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JHN-7:17",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.17",
        "text": "If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JHN-7:18",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.18",
        "text": "He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JHN-7:19",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.19",
        "text": "Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JHN-7:20",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.20",
        "text": "The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JHN-7:21",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.21",
        "text": "Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because thereof."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JHN-7:22",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.22",
        "text": "Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JHN-7:23",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.23",
        "text": "If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JHN-7:24",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.24",
        "text": "Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JHN-7:25",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.25",
        "text": "Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JHN-7:26",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.26",
        "text": "And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JHN-7:27",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.27",
        "text": "Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JHN-7:28",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.28",
        "text": "Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JHN-7:29",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.29",
        "text": "I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JHN-7:30",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.30",
        "text": "They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JHN-7:31",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.31",
        "text": "But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man hath done?"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JHN-7:32",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.32",
        "text": "The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JHN-7:33",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.33",
        "text": "Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JHN-7:34",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.34",
        "text": "Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JHN-7:35",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.35",
        "text": "The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will this man go that we shall not find him? will he go unto the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?"
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JHN-7:36",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.36",
        "text": "What is this word that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye cannot come?"
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JHN-7:37",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.37",
        "text": "Now on the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "JHN-7:38",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.38",
        "text": "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "JHN-7:39",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.39",
        "text": "But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet [given]; because Jesus was not yet glorified."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "JHN-7:40",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.40",
        "text": "[Some] of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "JHN-7:41",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.41",
        "text": "Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?"
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "JHN-7:42",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.42",
        "text": "Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "JHN-7:43",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.43",
        "text": "So there arose a division in the multitude because of him."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "JHN-7:44",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.44",
        "text": "And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him."
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "JHN-7:45",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.45",
        "text": "The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?"
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "JHN-7:46",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.46",
        "text": "The officers answered, Never man so spake."
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "JHN-7:47",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.47",
        "text": "The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?"
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "JHN-7:48",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.48",
        "text": "Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?"
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "JHN-7:49",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.49",
        "text": "But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed."
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "JHN-7:50",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.50",
        "text": "Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),"
      },{
        "n": 51,
        "refId": "JHN-7:51",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.51",
        "text": "Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?"
      },{
        "n": 52,
        "refId": "JHN-7:52",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.52",
        "text": "They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet."
      },{
        "n": 53,
        "refId": "JHN-7:53",
        "verseRef": "JHN.7.53",
        "text": "And they went every man unto his own house:"
      }
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