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  • 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 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; 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,{2 Samuel 7:12} and from Bethlehem,{Micah 5:2} 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.{See Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.}"
  • 53. Everyone went to his own house,