John 7:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Feast of Shelters After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

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  • John 7:19 : 19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
  • John 4:3 : 3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.
  • John 5:16-18 : 16 Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him. 17 So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
  • Matt 10:23 : 23 Whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to another! I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’
  • Luke 13:31-33 : 31 Going to Jerusalem At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus,“Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.” 32 But he said to them,“Go and tell that fox,‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’
  • John 1:19 : 19 The Testimony of John the Baptist Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,“Who are you?”
  • Acts 10:38 : 38 with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.
  • John 4:54 : 54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.
  • John 7:25 : 25 Questions About Jesus’ Identity Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say,“Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
  • John 8:37 : 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.
  • John 8:40 : 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
  • John 10:39-40 : 39 Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches. 40 Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.
  • John 11:53-54 : 53 So from that day they planned together to kill him. 54 Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 7:2-3
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    2Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near.

    3So Jesus’ brothers advised him,“Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

  • John 7:7-11
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    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

    8You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

    9When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

    10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

    11So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking,“Where is he?”

  • John 5:16
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    16Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

  • John 7:13-14
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    13However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

    14Teaching in the Temple When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

  • John 11:53-57
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    53So from that day they planned together to kill him.

    54Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

    55Now the Jewish Feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

    56Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts,“What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?”

    57(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

  • John 11:7-8
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    7Then after this, he said to his disciples,“Let us go to Judea again.”

    8The disciples replied,“Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”

  • John 5:1
    73%

    1Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • John 7:25
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    25Questions About Jesus’ Identity Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say,“Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

  • John 7:34-36
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    34You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

    35Then the Jewish leaders said to one another,“Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

    36What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

  • John 4:3
    72%

    3he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

  • John 6:1
    72%

    1The Feeding of the Five Thousand After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee(also called the Sea of Tiberias).

  • Mark 3:7
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    7Crowds by the Sea Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,

  • John 7:19-20
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    19Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

    20The crowd answered,“You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”

  • John 7:30
    71%

    30So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

  • John 8:20-22
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    20(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

    21Where Jesus Came From and Where He is Going Then Jesus said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

    22So the Jewish leaders began to say,“Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says,‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

  • John 4:45
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    45So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast(for they themselves had gone to the feast).

  • John 10:31
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    31The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

  • John 8:59
    69%

    59Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.

  • John 10:39-40
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    69%

    39Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

    40Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

  • John 7:44
    69%

    44Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

  • John 2:13
    69%

    13Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • John 3:22
    69%

    22Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • John 4:43
    69%

    43Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.

  • Luke 4:30
    69%

    30But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.

  • John 18:7
    68%

    7Then Jesus asked them again,“Who are you looking for?” And they said,“Jesus the Nazarene.”

  • Luke 22:2
    68%

    2The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

  • Matt 19:1
    68%

    1Questions About Divorce Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River.

  • John 6:4
    68%

    4(Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.)

  • Mark 14:1
    68%

    1The Plot Against Jesus Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

  • John 12:11
    68%

    11for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

  • Luke 7:18
    68%

    18Jesus and John the Baptist John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples

  • John 5:18
    68%

    18For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

  • Mark 9:30
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    30Second Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,