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Jesus and His Brothers
After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea, where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death.
After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea, where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death.
But soon it was time for the Jewish Festival of Shelters,
Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand.
and Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles!
You can’t become famous if you hide like this! If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world!”
For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
Jesus replied, “Now is not the right time for me to go, but you can go anytime.
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
After saying these things, Jesus remained in Galilee.
After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
Jesus Teaches Openly at the Temple
But after his brothers left for the festival, Jesus also went, though secretly, staying out of public view.
But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.
The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the festival and kept asking if anyone had seen him.
The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”
There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some argued, “He’s a good man,” but others said, “He’s nothing but a fraud who deceives the people.”
And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”
But no one had the courage to speak favorably about him in public, for they were afraid of getting in trouble with the Jewish leaders.
Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.
About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.
So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own.
Those who speak for themselves want glory only for themselves, but a person who seeks to honor the one who sent him speaks truth, not lies.
The 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 in him there is no falsehood.
Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you are trying to kill me.”
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
The crowd replied, “You’re demon possessed! Who’s trying to kill you?”
The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
Jesus replied, “I did one miracle on the Sabbath, and you were amazed.
Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it.
But you work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey Moses’ law of circumcision. (Actually, this tradition of circumcision began with the patriarchs, long before the law of Moses.)
Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
For if the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it so as not to break the law of Moses. So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the Sabbath?
If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?
Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
Is Jesus the Messiah?
Some of the people who lived in Jerusalem started to ask each other, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
Can This Be the Christ?
Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?
Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?
But here he is, speaking in public, and they say nothing to him. Could our leaders possibly believe that he is the Messiah?
And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
But how could he be? For we know where this man comes from. When the Messiah comes, he will simply appear; no one will know where he comes from.”
But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”
While Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he called out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I come from. But I’m not here on my own. The one who sent me is true, and you don’t know him.
So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
But I know him because I come from him, and he sent me to you.”
I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
Many among the crowds at the Temple believed in him. “After all,” they said, “would you expect the Messiah to do more miraculous signs than this man has done?”
Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
When the Pharisees heard that the crowds were whispering such things, they and the leading priests sent Temple guards to arrest Jesus.
Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
But Jesus told them, “I will be with you only a little longer. Then I will return to the one who sent me.
Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
You will search for me but not find me. And you cannot go where I am going.”
You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”
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?
What does he mean when he says, ‘You will search for me but not find me,’ and ‘You cannot go where I am going’?”
What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”
Jesus Promises Living Water
On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!
Rivers of Living Water
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Division Among the People
When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”
When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”
Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others said, “But he can’t be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee?
Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
Some even wanted him arrested, but no one laid a hand on him.
Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
When the Temple guards returned without having arrested Jesus, the leading priests and Pharisees demanded, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”
“We have never heard anyone speak like this!” the guards responded.
The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
“Have you been led astray, too?” the Pharisees mocked.
The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?
“Is there a single one of us rulers or Pharisees who believes in him?
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
This foolish crowd follows him, but they are ignorant of the law. God’s curse is on them!”
But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
Then Nicodemus, the leader who had met with Jesus earlier, spoke up.
Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,
“Is it legal to convict a man before he is given a hearing?” he asked.
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”