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4 may fee the works that thou doeft (c). For there is no man that doeth any thing in fecret, and he himfelf feeketh to be known openly: If thou do these 5 things, fhew thyfelf to the world. For neither did his 6 brethren believe in him (d). Then Jefus faid unto

them, My time is not yet come: but your time is al7 way ready. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof 8 are evil. Go ye up unto this feaft: I go not up yet unto this feaft, for my time is not yet full come. 9 When he had faid thefe words unto them, he abode ftill in Galilee.

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But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in 11 fecret (e). Then the Jews fought him at the feast, 12 and faid, Where is he? And there was much mur

muring among the people concerning him(f): for fome faid, He is a good man: others faid, Nay; but 13 he deceiveth the people. Howbeit, no man fpake openly of him (g), for fear of the Jews.

14 Now about the midft of the feaft, Jefus went up 15 into the temple, and taught. And the Jews marvel

led, faying, How knoweth this man letters (b), having 16 never learned? Jefus anfwered them, and faid, My doctrine is not mine (i), but his that fent me. 17

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any man will do his will, he fhall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of 18 myself. He that fpeaketh of himself, feeketh his own

(c) See Matt. xiii. 55.

(d) At that time; though afterwards they did. Acts i. 14. (e) As privately as he could.

(f) There was a variety of opinions concerning him.

(g) They who were most favourable to him, were afraid to commend him publicly.

(h) How hath he got his learning? He hath not fludied at any fchool, where he can have been taught these things.

(2) My doctrine is not the effect of learning and fludy, but comes from the fource of all knowledge and truth, even from God himself.

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glory but he that feeketh his glory that fent him, the fame is true, and no unrighteoufnefs is in him. 19 Did not Mofes give you the law, and yet none of you

keepeth the law (k)? why go ye about to kill me? 20 The people anfwered and faid, Thou haft a devil: 21 who goeth about to kill thee (1)? Jefus answered

and faid unto them, I have done one work (m), and 22 ye all marvel. Mofes therefore gave unto you circumcifion, (not because it is of Mofes, but of the fathers) (n) and ye on the fabbath-day circumcife a man. 23 If a man on the fabbath-day receive circumcifion, that the law of Mofes fhould not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit 24 whole on the fabbath-day (o)? Judge not according to 25 the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. Then

faid fome of them of Jerufalem, Is not this he whom 26 they seek to kill? But lo, he fpeaketh boldly, and they fay nothing unto him: do the rulers know indeed 27 that this is the very Chrift? Howbeit, we know this

man whence he is: but when Chrift cometh, no man 28 knoweth whence he is (p). Then cried Jefus in the temple as he taught, faying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself,

(k) You pretend to great refpect for the fourth commandment, but you have none for the fixth; for you are contriving how to kill Ime who have committed no crime.

(1) See Matt. xi. 18.

(m) He had cured a man on the fabbath-day. Chap. v. 10. See note on Chap. ix. 14.

(n) Circumcifion was first commanded to Abraham, who practifed it, as did the other patriarchs likewife, long before Mofes.

(0) The impotent man at the pool of Bethelda: whereas you conftantly circumcife a child on the fabbath-day, if it be the eighth day after its birth, becaufe Mofes has fo commanded.

(p) This opinion was cither a vulgar error among those who were not well versed in the knowledge of fcripture (See verfe 42); or elfe perhaps it may have been grounded on the fimilitude of Chrift to Melchifedec, who was acknowledged to be a type of him, and is defcribed as without father, without mother. Heb. vii. 3.

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but he that fent me is true, whom ye know not (q). 29 But I know him, for I am from him, and he hath 30 fent me. Then they fought to take him but no

man laid hands on him, because his hour (r) was not 31 yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and faid, When Chrift cometh, will he do more mi32 racles than these which this man hath done? The Pharifees heard that the people murmured (s) fuch things concerning him: and the Pharifees, and the 33 chief priests fent officers to take him. Then faid Jefus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, 34 and then I go unto him that fent me.

Ye fhall feek me, and fhall not find me: and where I am, thither 35 ye cannot come. Then faid the Jews among themfelves, Whither will he go, that we fhall not find him? will he go unto the difperfed among the Gen36 tiles, and teach the Gentiles? What manner of faying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and fhall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?

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In the last day, that great day of the feaft, Jefus ftood and cried, faying, If any man thirst (t), let him come 38 unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the fcripture hath faid (u), out of his belly fhall flow rivers 39 of (w) living water. (But this fpake he of the Spirit, which

(q) True it is, that ye know me as to my birth and education; but ye will not attend to the commiffion and authority I act by, and ye fet yourselves against me, though I am come from God.

(r) The time which God had appointed for his death was not yet

come.

(s) Murmur fignifies fpeaking not difcontentedly, but privately, as it were in a whifper, as verfe 13.

(t) It was the custom, on the laft day at this feflival, to draw water from the fountain of Siloam, and offer it with great folemnity to God, in memory of the miraculous relief of water, when Mofes fmote the rock in the wilderness.

(u) See Ifaiah xii. 3. lv. 1.

(w) From that ceremony, he takes occafion to compare his doctrine to water, as he had in the foregoing chapter to bread; each

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which they that believe on him, fhould receive: for the Holy Ghoft (x) was not yet given, because that Jefus was not yet glorified.)

Many of the people therefore, when they heard this faying, faid, Of a truth this is the prophet. 41 Others faid, This is the Chrift. But fome faid, Shall 42 Chrift come out of Galilee (y)? Hath not the fcripture faid, That Chrift cometh of the feed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David 43 was (z)? So there was a divifion among the people 44 because of him. And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharifees; and they faid unto them, Why have ye 46 not brought him? The officers anfwered, Never 47 man fpake like this man. Then anfwered them the 48 Pharifees, Are ye alfo deceived? Have any of the 49 rulers, or of the Pharifees, believed on him? But

this people, who knoweth not the law, are curfed. 50 Nicodemus faith unto them, (he that came to Jefus 51 by night, being one of them) Doth our law judge

any man before it hear him, and know what he 52 doeth? They answered, and faid unto him, Art thou alfo of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of 53 Galilee arifeth no prophet (aa). And every man went unto his own houfe.

being neceffary for the fupport of life. As water is drawn from the belly, or hollow, of a fountain, fo were the fireams of the doctrine of everlafting life to be fpread through the world by the preaching of his difciples, and the overflowing gifts of the holy Ghoft.

(x) By the holy Ghost is to be understood, his miraculous gifts. See Acts xix. 2.

(y) He was born in Bethlehem, the very place where the prophets had foretold that Chrift was to be born, though he was car ried afterwards by Jofeph and Mary, to Nazareth in Galilee. Matt. ii. 23.

(z) Where David dwelt with his Father Jeffe. 1 Sam. xvi. 1, 4. (aa) See Verfe 41. Note.

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ESUS went unto the mount of Olives. And early 2 in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he fat down, and 3 taught them. And the fcribes and Pharifees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they 4 had set her in the midft, They fay unto him, Maf

ter, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very 5 act. Now Mofes in the law commanded us, that 6 fuch fhould be ftoned: but what fayeft thou? This they faid, tempting him, that they might have to accufe him (a). But Jefus ftooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them 7 not. So when they continued afking him, he lift up himself, and faid unto them, he that is without fin 8 among you, let him firft caft a stone at her (b). And again he ftooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own confcience (c), went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jefus was left alone, 10 and the woman ftanding in the midft. When Jefus had lift up himself, and faw none but the woman, he faid unto her, Woman, where are those thine accu11 fers? hath no man condemned thee? She faid, No

(a) That they might have fomething to accufe him of; viz. either by taking on himself the power and office of a judge, if he condemned her; or of screening her from the law, if he let her go free. (6) Before any man accufes another of fin, let him carefully examine his own confcience.

(c) They were fupernaturally awed and convicted by that power, by which, at the great day, the hearts of all men fhall be laid open; and probably our Lord's words were accompanied with fuch an irrefiftible look of penetration and majefly, as ftruck the officers to the ground who were fent to apprehend him. Chap. xviii. 6.

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