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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,
But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
and Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles!
Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do.
You can’t become famous if you hide like this! If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world!”
No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”
Jesus replied, “Now is not the right time for me to go, but you can go anytime.
Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do.
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 that its works are evil.
After saying these things, Jesus remained in Galilee.
After he had said this, he stayed 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.
However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.
The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the festival and kept asking if anyone had seen him.
Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “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.”
Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”
Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.”
Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.”
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.
But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.
Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.
Jesus Teaches at the Festival
Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.
Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.
The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”
So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.
Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one 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.
Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on 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.
Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.
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 not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
The crowd replied, “You’re demon possessed! Who’s trying to kill you?”
“You are demon-possessed,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
Jesus replied, “I did one miracle on the Sabbath, and you were amazed.
Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
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.)
Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy 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?
Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?
Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”
Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”
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?
Division Over Who Jesus Is
At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying 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?
Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah?
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 is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is 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.
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,
But I know him because I come from him, and he sent me to you.”
but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
At this they tried to seize 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?”
Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?”
When the Pharisees heard that the crowds were whispering such things, they and the leading priests sent Temple guards to arrest Jesus.
The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards 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 said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
You will search for me but not find me. And you cannot go where I am going.”
You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered 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 did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but 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!
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
On hearing his words, some of the people said, “Surely this man 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, “He is the Messiah.”
Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”
Some even wanted him arrested, but no one laid a hand on him.
Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
When the Temple guards returned without having arrested Jesus, the leading priests and Pharisees demanded, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
“We have never heard anyone speak like this!” the guards responded.
“No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.
“Have you been led astray, too?” the Pharisees mocked.
“You mean he has deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted.
“Is there a single one of us rulers or Pharisees who believes in him?
“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
This foolish crowd follows him, but they are ignorant of the law. God’s curse is on them!”
No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law — there is a curse on them.”
Then Nicodemus, the leader who had met with Jesus earlier, spoke up.
Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,
“Is it legal to convict a man before he is given a hearing?” he asked.
“Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”