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this, Jesus went about in Galilee, since He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jews there were trying to kill Him. 2 But the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, 3 so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples also may see the miraculous works You are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret if he wants to be widely known.” 5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
6 So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify against it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the Feast yourselves. I am not going up to this Feast, because My time has not yet fully come.” 9 Having said this, He remained in Galilee.
10 However, after His brothers had gone up to the Feast, then He also went up, not publicly, but in secret. 11 The Jews were looking for Him at the Feast and asking, “Where is He?”
12 And there was widespread discussion about Him among the crowds. While some were saying, “He is the good man,” others were saying, “No, He is deceiving the people.” 13 Yet no one was speaking publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
14 When the Feast was about halfway through, Jesus went up into the temple courts and began to teach. 15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How does this man have such learning, since He has never been trained?”
16 Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not My own, but it comes from He who sent Me. 17 If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will know whether My teachings come from God or if I speak on My own. 18 He who speaks on his own seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no falsehood in Him. 19 Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you want to kill Me?”
20 “You have a demon!” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill You?”
21 Jesus said to them, “I performed one miracle, and you all are amazed. 22 Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (though it did not come from Moses, but from the fathers) and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with Me because I healed a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by outward appearances; rather, judge with right judgment.”
25 Now some of the people from Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill? 26 Yet here He is, speaking openly, and they’re not saying anything to Him. Could the authorities have concluded that He really is the Christ? 27 But we know where this man is from, and when the Christ comes no one will know where He is from.”
28 So Jesus cried out as He was teaching in the temple courts, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him, 29 but I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
30 At this they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. 31 However, many people in the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more miraculous signs than this man has done?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest Him.
33 Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the One who sent Me. 34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we won’t find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me’, and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
37 On the last day of the Feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow forth from within him.” 39 By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive later; for the Spirit was not yet given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 When some of the people in the crowd heard His words, they said, “This really is the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.”
But some said, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? 42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the descendants of David and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?” 43 So there was a division among the people because of Him. 44 Some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45 Then the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”
46 The temple guards answered, “No man ever spoke the way this Man does!”
47 Then the Pharisees replied, “Are you also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in Him? 49 But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed!”
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of them, asked, 51 “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is doing?”
52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Look into it, and you will find that no prophet is to arise from Galilee.”
53 Then each of them went to his own home.