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John 7:1

John 7:1 is verse 1 of John chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.

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King James Version

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

World English Bible

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

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John 7:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.

2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.

3 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

John 4:3

He left Judea and returned to Galilee.

John 4:54

This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.

John 10:39

At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.

John 10:40

Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.

John 11:54

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Luke 13:31

At that very hour, some Pharisees came to Jesus and told Him, “Leave this place and get away, because Herod wants to kill You.”

Luke 13:32

But Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.’

Luke 13:33

Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

John 7:19

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

John 7:25

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

John 5:16

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

John 5:18

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’

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