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
while he 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 middle 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 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 completely healthy 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.
You can’t come where I am.” 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 offspring† of David, *
and from Bethlehem,* the village where
David was?” 43 So a division arose 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 or any of the
Pharisees believed in him?
49 But this multitude that doesn’t know
the law is cursed.” 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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