[1] After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not 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 man 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 of the teaching,
whether it is from God, or if I speak from myself. [18] He who speaks from
himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent
him, the same 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 every bit whole on the
Sabbath? [24] Don`t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous
judgment." [25] Some therefore 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. No one laid a hand on him, because his
hour was not yet come. [31] But of the multitude, many believed in him.
They said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those which
this man has done?" [32] The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these
things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent
officers to take him. [33] Then Jesus said, "Yet a little while, am I with
you, 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, and from Bethlehem, the village where David
was?" [43] So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. [44]
Some of them would have taken 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, "Are
you also led astray? [48] Has any of the rulers believed in him, or of the
Pharisees? [49] But this cursed multitude doesn`t know the law." [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,
