1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t
walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the feast of the
Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. 3 His brothers therefore said to
him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see
your works which you do. 4 For no one does anything in secret, and himself
seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the
world.” 5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
6 Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your
time is always ready. 7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because
I testify about it, that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the
feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet
fulfilled.”
9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10 But when
his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly,
but as it were in secret. 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast,
and said, “Where is he?” 12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes
concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he
leads the multitude astray.” 13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of
the Jews. 14 But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up
into the temple and taught. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How
does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
16 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his
who sent me. 17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the
teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. 18 He
who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of
him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
19 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why
do you seek to kill me?”
20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel
because of it. 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of
Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses
may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit
whole on the Sabbath? 24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge
righteous judgment.”
25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek
to kill? 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it
be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 27 However
we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will
know where he comes from.”
28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying,
“You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of
myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. 29 I know
him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him,
because his hour had not yet come. 31 But of the multitude, many believed
in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those
which this man has done, will he?” 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude
murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the
Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I
go to him who sent me. 34 You will seek me, and won’t find me; and
where I am, you can’t come.”
35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that
we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach
the Greeks? 36 What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me,
and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come?’”
37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried
out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38 He who
believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers
of living water.” 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those
believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said,
“This is truly the prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But
some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Hasn’t the
Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from
Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So there arose a division in
the multitude because of him. 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but
no one laid hands on him. 45 The officers therefore came to the chief
priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring
him?”
46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led
astray, are you? 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the
Pharisees? 49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is
accursed.”
50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to
them, 51 “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him
personally and knows what he does?”
52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no
prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
53 Everyone went to his own house,
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