John 7:16-36

16Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but [that] of him that has sent me.

17If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of 1God, or [that] I speak from myself.

18He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

19Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

20The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?

21Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder.

22Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.

23If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath?

24Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

25Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

26and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?

27But [as to] this [man] we know whence he is. Now [as to] the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.

28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye do not know.

29I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me.

30They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

31But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this [man] has done?

32The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.

33Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him that has sent me.

34Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me], and where I am ye cannot come.

35The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

36What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me]; and where I am ye cannot come?