John 7

And after these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews were trying to find a way to kill him.

Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.

Therefore his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also can see the works that you are doing.

For no one does anything in secret when he is seeking to be known publicly. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world”

(for not even his brothers believed in him).

Therefore Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

The world is not able to hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully come.”

And having said these things to them, he remained in Galilee.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but in secret.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and kept saying, “Where is he?”

And there was a lot of secret discussion about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is a good man;” others said, “No, on the contrary, he leads the people astray.”

Yet no one was speaking publicly about him because they were afraid of the Jews.

Now about the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the Temple and began to teach.

Then the Jews were amazed, and said, “How does this man have such learning when he has not been educated?”

Therefore Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not my own, but his that sent me.

If anyone is willing to keep doing his will, he will come to know about the teaching, whether it is of God, or if I am speaking on my own.

The one who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory, but the one who is seeking the glory of one who sent him, he is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

“Didn’t Moses give you the law? And yet not one of you is keeping the law. If you are, why are you trying to kill me?”

The crowd answered, “You have a demon. Who is trying to kill you?”

Jesus answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you all were amazed.

For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the Fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses is not broken, are you enraged with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Stop judging by the outward appearance! Instead, judge with a righteous judgment.”

Therefore, some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not he whom they are trying to kill?

And look, he is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers really know that this is the Christ?

But we know where this man is from, yet when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”

So Jesus cried out while teaching in the Temple, saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. And I have not come on my own, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”

Therefore, they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid his hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

But many in the crowd believed in him, and they said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those that this man has done?”

The Pharisees heard the crowd secretly discussing these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent Temple police to take him.

So Jesus said, “I am with you a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you are not able to come.”

Therefore the Jews said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we will not find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me and will not find me, and, where I am, you are not able to come?’”

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty—whoever believes in me—let him come to me and drink.

As the Scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.”

Now he said this about the spirit, which those who believed in him were going to receive, for as yet there was no spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Then some of the crowd, when they heard these words, said, “Truly, this is the prophet!”

Others said, “This is the Christ!” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

So there arose a division among the crowd because of him.

And some of them were wanting to arrest him, but no one laid his hands on him.

Then the Temple police came back to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”

The police answered, “No one has ever spoken like this.”

So the Pharisees answered them, “You have not also been led astray, have you?

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

But this crowd that does not know the law—they are cursed.

Nicodemus (the one who had come to him earlier and who was one of them) said to them,

“Does our law condemn a man without first hearing from him and learning what he is doing?”

They answered and said to him, “You are not from Galilee also, are you? Search, and you will see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

[[And each one went to his own house,]]