John 7:1
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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)
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- 7–8 These chapters contain events about the feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth, Ingathering: Ex 23:16; Tents, Booths: Dt 16:13–16), with its symbols of booths (originally built to shelter harvesters), rain (water from Siloam poured on the temple altar), and lights (illumination of the four torches in the Court of the Women). They continue the theme of the replacement of feasts (Passover, Jn 2:13; 6:4; Hanukkah, Jn 10:22; Pentecost, Jn 5:1), here accomplished by Jesus as the Living Water. These chapters comprise seven miscellaneous controversies and dialogues. There is a literary inclusion with Jesus in hiding in Jn 7:4, 10; 8:59. There are frequent references to attempts on his life: Jn 7:1, 13, 19, 25, 30, 32, 44; 8:37, 40, 59.
John 7:25
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25 So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
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John 8:37
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37 I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are trying to kill me, because my word has no room among you.
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John 8:40
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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.
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John 10:33
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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)
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John 10:36
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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)
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John 14:28
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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.
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Genesis 3:5-6
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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)
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- 3:5 Like gods, who know: or “like God who knows.”
Wisdom 2:16
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16 He judges us debased;
he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.
He calls blest the destiny of the righteous
and boasts that God is his Father.(A)
Matthew 26:4
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4 (A)and they consulted together to arrest Jesus by treachery and put him to death.
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2 Thessalonians 2:4
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4 (A)who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so as to seat himself in the temple of God,[a] claiming that he is a god—
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- 2:4 Seat himself in the temple of God: a reflection of the language in Dn 7:23–25; 8:9–12; 9:27; 11:36–37; 12:11 about the attempt of Antiochus IV Epiphanes to set up a statue of Zeus in the Jerusalem temple and possibly of the Roman emperor Caligula to do a similar thing (Mk 13:14). Here the imagery suggests an attempt to install someone in the place of God, claiming that he is a god (cf. Ez 28:2). Usually, it is the Jerusalem temple that is assumed to be meant; on the alternative view sketched above (see note on 2 Thes 2:1–17), the temple refers to the Christian community.
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