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title: "John 7 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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# John 7

John 7 is chapter 7 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 53 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ goes up to the feast of the tabernacles. He teaches in the temple.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 7 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then, after these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee. For he was not willing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
2. Now the feast day of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.
3. And his brothers said to him: “Move away from here and go into Judea, so that your disciples there may also see your works that you do.
4. Of course, no one does anything in secret, but he himself seeks to be in the public view. Since you do these things, manifest yourself to the world.”
5. For neither did his brothers believe in him.
6. Therefore, Jesus said to them: “My time has not yet come; but your time is always at hand.
7. The world cannot hate you. But it hates me, because I offer testimony about it, that its works are evil.
8. You may go up to this feast day. But I am not going up to this feast day, because my time has not yet been fulfilled.”
9. When he had said these things, he himself remained in Galilee.
10. But after his brothers went up, then he also went up to the feast day, not openly, but as if in secret.
11. Therefore, the Jews were seeking him on the feast day, and they were saying, “Where is he?”
12. And there was much murmuring in the crowd concerning him. For certain ones were saying, “He is good.” But others were saying, “No, for he seduces the crowds.”
13. Yet no one was speaking openly about him, out of fear of the Jews.
14. Then, about the middle of the feast, Jesus ascended into the temple, and he was teaching.
15. And the Jews wondered, saying: “How does this one know letters, though he has not been taught?”
16. Jesus responded to them and said: “My doctrine is not of me, but of him who sent me.
17. If anyone has chosen to do his will, then he will realize, about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking from myself.
18. Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But whoever seeks the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and injustice is not in him.
19. Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one among you keeps the law!
20. Why are you seeking to kill me?” The crowd responded and said: “You must have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?”
21. Jesus responded and said to them: “One work have I done, and you all wonder.
22. For Moses gave you circumcision, (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.
23. If a man can receive circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you indignant toward me, because I have made a man whole on the Sabbath?
24. Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
25. Therefore, some of those from Jerusalem said: “Is he not the one whom they are seeking to kill?
26. And behold, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Could the leaders have decided that it is true this one is the Christ?
27. But we know him and where he is from. And when the Christ has arrived, no one will know where he is from.”
28. Therefore, Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: “You know me, and you also know where I am from. And I have not arrived of myself, but he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
29. I know him. For I am from him, and he has sent me.”
30. Therefore, they were seeking to apprehend him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31. But many among the crowd believed in him, and they were saying, “When the Christ arrives, will he perform more signs than this man does?”
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him. And the leaders and the Pharisees sent attendants to apprehend him.
33. Therefore, Jesus said to them: “For a brief time, I am still with you, and then I am going to him who sent me.
34. You shall seek me, and you will not find me. And where I am, you are not able to go.”
35. And so the Jews said among themselves: “Where is this place to which he will go, such that we will not find him? Will he go to those dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles?
36. What is this word that he spoke, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me; and where I am, you are not able to go?’”
37. Then, on the last great day of the feast, Jesus was standing and crying out, saying: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink:
38. whoever believes in me, just as Scripture says, ‘From his chest shall flow rivers of living water.’”
39. Now he said this about the Spirit, which those who believe in him would soon be receiving. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40. Therefore, some from that crowd, when they had heard these words of his, were saying, “This one truly is the Prophet.”
41. Others were saying, “He is the Christ.” Yet certain ones were saying: “Does the Christ come from Galilee?
42. Does Scripture not say that the Christ comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?”
43. And so there arose a dissension among the multitude because of him.
44. Now certain ones among them wanted to apprehend him, but no one laid hands upon him.
45. Therefore, the attendants went to the high priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why have you not brought him?”
46. The attendants responded, “Never has a man spoken like this man.”
47. And so the Pharisees answered them: “Have you also been seduced?
48. Have any of the leaders believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?
49. But this crowd, which does not know the law, they are accursed.”
50. Nicodemus, the one who came to him by night and who was one of them, said to them,
51. “Does our law judge a man, unless it has first heard him and has known what he has done?”
52. They responded and said to him: “Are you also a Galilean? Study the Scriptures, and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee.”
53. And each one returned to his own house.

## John 7 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Post hæc autem ambulabat Jesus in Galilæam: non enim volebat in Judæam ambulare, quia quærebant eum Judæi interficere.
2. Erat autem in proximo dies festus Judæorum, Scenopegia.
3. Dixerunt autem ad eum fratres ejus: Transi hinc, et vade in Judæam, ut et discipuli tui videant opera tua, quæ facis.
4. Nemo quippe in occulto quid facit, et quærit ipse in palam esse: si hæc facis, manifesta teipsum mundo.
5. Neque enim fratres ejus credebant in eum.
6. Dicit ergo eis Jesus: Tempus meum nondum advenit: tempus autem vestrum semper est paratum.
7. Non potest mundus odisse vos: me autem odit, quia ego testimonium perhibeo de illo quod opera ejus mala sunt.
8. Vos ascendite ad diem festum hunc, ego autem non ascendo ad diem festum istum: quia meum tempus nondum impletum est.
9. Hæc cum dixisset, ipse mansit in Galilæa.
10. Ut autem ascenderunt fratres ejus, tunc et ipse ascendit ad diem festum non manifeste, sed quasi in occulto.
11. Judæi ergo quærebant eum in die festo, et dicebant: Ubi est ille?
12. Et murmur multum erat in turba de eo. Quidam enim dicebant: Quia bonus est. Alii autem dicebant: Non, sed seducit turbas.
13. Nemo tamen palam loquebatur de illo propter metum Judæorum.
14. Jam autem die festo mediante, ascendit Jesus in templum, et docebat.
15. Et mirabantur Judæi, dicentes: Quomodo hic litteras scit, cum non didicerit?
16. Respondit eis Jesus, et dixit: Mea doctrina non est mea, sed ejus qui misit me.
17. Si quis voluerit voluntatem ejus facere, cognoscet de doctrina, utrum ex Deo sit, an ego a meipso loquar.
18. Qui a semetipso loquitur, gloriam propriam quærit; qui autem quærit gloriam ejus qui misit eum, hic verax est, et injustitia in illo non est.
19. Nonne Moyses dedit vobis legem: et nemo ex vobis facit legem?
20. Quid me quæritis interficere? Respondit turba, et dixit: Dæmonium habes: quis te quærit interficere?
21. Respondit Jesus et dixit eis: Unum opus feci, et omnes miramini:
22. propterea Moyses dedit vobis circumcisionem (non quia ex Moyse est, sed ex patribus), et in sabbato circumciditis hominem.
23. Si circumcisionem accipit homo in sabbato, ut non solvatur lex Moysi: mihi indignamini quia totum hominem sanum feci in sabbato?
24. Nolite judicare secundum faciem, sed justum judicium judicate.
25. Dicebant ergo quidam ex Jerosolymis: Nonne hic est, quem quærunt interficere?
26. et ecce palam loquitur, et nihil ei dicunt. Numquid vere cognoverunt principes quia hic est Christus?
27. Sed hunc scimus unde sit: Christus autem cum venerit, nemo scit unde sit.
28. Clamabat ergo Jesus in templo docens, et dicens: Et me scitis, et unde sim scitis: et a meipso non veni, sed est verus qui misit me, quem vos nescitis.
29. Ego scio eum: quia ab ipso sum, et ipse me misit.
30. Quærebant ergo eum apprehendere: et nemo misit in illum manus, quia nondum venerat hora ejus.
31. De turba autem multi crediderunt in eum, et dicebant: Christus cum venerit, numquid plura signa faciet quam quæ hic facit?
32. Audierunt pharisæi turbam murmurantem de illo hæc: et miserunt principes et pharisæi ministros ut apprehenderent eum.
33. Dixit ergo eis Jesus: Adhuc modicum tempus vobiscum sum: et vado ad eum qui me misit.
34. Quæretis me, et non invenietis: et ubi ego sum, vos non potestis venire.
35. Dixerunt ergo Judæi ad semetipsos: Quo hic iturus est, quia non inveniemus eum? numquid in dispersionem gentium iturus est, et docturus gentes?
36. quis est hic sermo, quem dixit: Quæretis me, et non invenietis: et ubi sum ego, vos non potestis venire?
37. In novissimo autem die magno festivitatis stabat Jesus, et clamabat dicens: Si quis sitit, veniat ad me et bibat.
38. Qui credit in me, sicut dicit Scriptura, flumina de ventre ejus fluent aquæ vivæ.
39. Hoc autem dixit de Spiritu, quem accepturi erant credentes in eum: nondum enim erat Spiritus datus, quia Jesus nondum erat glorificatus.
40. Ex illa ergo turba cum audissent hos sermones ejus, dicebant: Hic est vere propheta.
41. Alii dicebant: Hic est Christus. Quidam autem dicebant: Numquid a Galilæa venit Christus?
42. nonne Scriptura dicit: Quia ex semine David, et de Bethlehem castello, ubi erat David, venit Christus?
43. Dissensio itaque facta est in turba propter eum.
44. Quidam autem ex ipsis volebant apprehendere eum: sed nemo misit super eum manus.
45. Venerunt ergo ministri ad pontifices et pharisæos. Et dixerunt eis illi: Quare non adduxistis illum?
46. Responderunt ministri: Numquam sic locutus est homo, sicut hic homo.
47. Responderunt ergo eis pharisæi: Numquid et vos seducti estis?
48. numquid ex principibus aliquis credidit in eum, aut ex pharisæis?
49. sed turba hæc, quæ non novit legem, maledicti sunt.
50. Dixit Nicodemus ad eos, ille qui venit ad eum nocte, qui unus erat ex ipsis:
51. Numquid lex nostra judicat hominem, nisi prius audierit ab ipso, et cognoverit quid faciat?
52. Responderunt, et dixerunt ei: Numquid et tu Galilæus es? scrutare Scripturas, et vide quia a Galilæa propheta non surgit.
53. Et reversi sunt unusquisque in domum suam.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 583: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 675: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 574: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 575: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 427: I Believe in Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 578: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 581: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 582: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2173: The Sabbath Day ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1287: Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 728: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2561: Prayer in the Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1999: Grace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 690: The Joint Mission of the Son and the Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 244: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 588: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 595: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Mar 12, 2027: Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
- Sat, Mar 13, 2027: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 7:40-53
- Fri, Mar 31, 2028 (computed): Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
- Sat, Apr 1, 2028 (computed): Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 7:40-53

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).