1And after these things, Jesus was traveling in Galilee; for he did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
2Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
3So his brothers said to him, “Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
4For no one who wants to be known publicly does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”
5For not even his brothers were believing in him.
6So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.
8You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time has not yet been fulfilled.”
9After saying these things to them, he remained in Galilee.
10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly but, as it were, in secret.
11So the Jews were looking for him at the feast and were saying, “Where is that man?”
12And there was much murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others were saying, “No, he is deceiving the crowd.”
13However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.
14Now when the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple courts and began to teach.
15So the Jews were amazed, saying, “How does this man know the Scriptures, since he has never been taught?”
16So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
17If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.
18The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
20The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
21Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you are all amazed.
22For this reason Moses has given you circumcision—not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?
24Do not judge by appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
25So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man they are seeking to kill?
26And look, he is speaking openly, and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers have truly recognized that this is the Christ?
27But we know where this man is from; yet when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28So Jesus, teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I am from! Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30So they were seeking to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31But many from the crowd believed in him, and they were saying, “When the Christ comes, will he perform more signs than this man has done?”
32The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33So Jesus said, “For a little while longer I am with you, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
34You will seek me and you will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come.”
35So the Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
36What is this saying that he said: ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘where I am, you cannot come’?”
37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
38The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
39Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40Therefore, when some from the crowd heard these words, they were saying, “This is truly the Prophet.”
41Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” But some were saying, “Surely the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?
42Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
43So a division occurred among the crowd because of him.
44Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
45So the officers went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”
46The officers answered, “No man has ever spoken like this man.”
47So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?
48Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
49But this crowd that does not know the law—they are accursed!”
50Nicodemus, the one who had come to Jesus before and was one of them, said to them,
51“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing?”
52They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
53⟦And each one went to his own home.
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