◄ John 7 Devotional Commentary ►

John 7:2

It was in the third year of Christ's ministry that we read: "The feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near." Jesus knew the Jews were seeking to kill Him, and so He deliberately delayed His journey to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. He remained in Galilee until the last possible moment.

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John 7:17

The time was getting closer to the day when the Lord Jesus would be betrayed and handed over to wicked men, who would crucify Him by nailing His sinless body to the Cross. Grace and truth came through Him and for three years, He spoke only those things that He heard from the Father. No one spoke the gracious words that Jesus spoke, and no one performed many mighty miracles that Jesus performed; prophetic signs that authenticated the Man read more...

John 7:29

Earlier, John told us that God GAVE His only begotten Son to be the Saviour of the world, and here He tells us that God SENT His Son into the world. Later, this same beloved disciple gives the reason that God sent His Son into the world: "He was sent, so that we might live through Him." And just before His death, Jesus also revealed to His disciples: "I and the Father are one," one in unity, and one in Spirit.

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John 7:37

Three times a year, the Jewish males were instructed by the written Law to travel up to Jerusalem to celebrate three of the great feasts of the Lord. Each feast reminded them of a significant part of their national heritage and yet each feast also pointed forward to a wonderful future fulfilment when the promised Messiah would come to right all wrongs and set up His earthly kingdom of peace and prosperity, as promised to Israel in the Old Testament Scriptures.

John 7:38

Jesus delivered this pleading invitation to the nation of Israel to come and drink of the Living Water. It was on the last day of the feast of Tabernacles, only months before His death, that Jesus made this astonishing announcement as He stood and cried out with a loud voice: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of Living Water'.

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John 7:39

On the last day of the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles, Jesus cried out to the lost sheep of the house of Israel: "If anyone is thirsty, come to Me and drink, and from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water." It was not a literal river of water that would flow from their belly: "But He spoke of the Holy Ghost, Whom those who believed in Jesus would one day receive."

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John 7:46

Jesus is the incarnate God. He is the Word of God made in human flesh... and Jesus spoke only those things which He heard from His Father in heaven. It is no surprise, therefore, that the officers of the Law who had been sent by the high priest to arrest the Lord Jesus, reported back to the Sanhedrin so admiringly saying, "Never has a man spoken in the way that this man speaks."

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