Welcome to our website where we explore the Bible! Pleasure to meet you here!
May your journey into the world of the Holy Scriptures be engaging and inspiring!
You can change reading language: uk ru
Parallel
New Living Translation
New King James Version
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 Tabernacles was at hand.
and Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles!
His brothers therefore said to Him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing.
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 does anything in secret while he himself 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.
Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
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 of it that its works are evil.
After saying these things, Jesus remained in Galilee.
When He had said these things to them, 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.
The Heavenly Scholar
But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the festival and kept asking if anyone had seen him.
Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, “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 complaining among the people concerning Him. Some said, “He is good”; others said, “No, on the contrary, 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.
However, no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.
Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.
Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”
So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God 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.
If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.
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.
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.
Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you are trying to kill me.”
Did not Moses give 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 people answered and said, “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 and said to them, “I did one work, and you all marvel.
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 therefore 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 a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous 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?
Could This Be the Christ?
Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to kill?
Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He 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?
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.”
However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows 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 cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
But I know him because I come from him, and he sent me to you.”
Therefore they sought to take 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?”
And many of the people believed in Him, and said, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which 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.
Jesus and the Religious Leaders
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him.
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him.
But Jesus told them, “I will be with you only a little longer. Then I will return 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 seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come.”
Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall 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 is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and 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!
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
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, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee?
But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee?
Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”
Some even wanted him arrested, but no one laid a hand on him.
Now some of them wanted to take 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?”
Rejected by the Authorities
Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
“We have never heard anyone speak like this!” the guards responded.
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!”
“Have you been led astray, too?” the Pharisees mocked.
Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived?
“Is there a single one of us rulers or Pharisees who believes in him?
Have any of the rulers 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.
“Is it legal to convict a man before he is given a hearing?” he asked.
“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”