John 7:14

John 7:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
• New International Version (NIV)Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.
• English Standard Version (ESV)About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

Context of John 7:14

12There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” 13However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders. When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach. 15Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” 16So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

John 7:14 word by word

Ἤδη δὲ τῆς ἑορτῆς μεσούσης ἀνέβη Ἰησοῦς εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ ἐδίδασκεν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Nowἤδηēdē · alreadyG2235
• ·δέde · thenG1161
• about the midstμεσόωmesoō · be in the middleG3322
• of the feastὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• of the feastἑορτήheortē · festivalG1859
• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• went upἀναβαίνωanabainō · to ascendG305
• intoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• the templeἱερόνhieron · templeG2411
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• taughtδιδάσκωdidaskō · to teachG1321

Cross-references for John 7:14

• John 7:2Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
• Numbers 29:12“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the Lord for seven days.
• John 5:14After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”
• John 8:2Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.
• John 18:20Jesus replied, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.
• Haggai 2:7I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord who rules over all.
• Malachi 3:1“I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord who rules over all.
• Matthew 21:12Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.
• Luke 19:47Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Commentaries on John 7:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The midst of the feast - Though the canons required him to be there on the first day, for the performance of a great variety of rites, yet, as these were in general the invention of their doctors, he might think it very proper neither to attend nor perform them.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14About the midst - Or about the middle of the feast. It continued eight days. The temple - See the notes at Matthew 21:12. And taught - Great multitudes were assembled in and around the temple, and it was a favorable time and place to make known his doctrine.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-24Verses 14-24 Every faithful minister may humbly adopt Christ's words. His doctrine is not his own finding out, but is from God's word, through the teaching of his Spirit. And amidst the disputes which disturb the world, if any man, of any nation, seeks to do the will of God, he shall know whether the doctrine is of God, or whether men speak of themselves. Only those who hate the truth shall be given up to errors which will be fatal. Surely it was as…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-52This chapter describes Jesus at the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus used parts of the feast to reveal his true identity to his fellow Jews and to show that he had fulfilled the feast's essential meaning (see 7:37–39; 8:12).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. about the midst of the feast--the fourth or fifth day of the eight, during which it lasted. went up into the temple and taught--The word denotes formal and continuous teaching, as distinguished from mere casual sayings. This was probably the first time that He did so thus openly in Jerusalem. He had kept back till the feast was half through, to let the stir about Him subside, and entering the city unexpectedly, had begun His "teaching" at the…Read the comment

Topics related to John 7:14

• Instruction
• Jerusalem
• Jesus, the Christ
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Temple

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Commentaries on John 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings