Chapter 7

The Feast of Tabernacles. ^1 [a]After this, Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.^(A)

²⁵ So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?

³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are trying to kill me, because my word has no room among you.

⁴⁰ But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this.

³³ The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.”^(A)

³⁶ can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated^[a] and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?^(A)

^28 [a]You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’^(A) If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

⁵ God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know^[a] good and evil.” ⁶ The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.^(A)

^4 (A)and they consulted together to arrest Jesus by treachery and put him to death.