1After these things Jesus continued to move about in Galilee, ²⁰⁹since He did not wish to move about in Judea because the Jews were wanting to kill Him. ²¹⁰

Jesus and His brothers

2Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was near.

3So His brothers said to Him: “Leave here and go up into Judea so your disciples also ²¹¹may see the works that you are doing,

4because no one does anything in secret while he actually wants to be in evidence. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world!”

5For not even His brothers were believing into Him. ²¹²

6So Jesus says to them: “My time is not here yet, but your time is always available. ²¹³

7The world cannot hate you, but does hate me, because I testify about it that its works are malignant. ²¹⁴

8You guys go up to this feast; I am not going up yet ²¹⁵to this feast, because my time has not yet fully come.”

9So upon saying these things to them He stayed on in Galilee. ²¹⁶

10Now when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He too went up, not openly but in secret like.

11So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and saying, “Where is he?”

12And there was a lot of murmuring about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is good”; others were saying, “On the contrary, he's deceiving the people.”

13However, no one was talking openly about Him for fear of the Jews.

Jesus teaches in the Temple

14Now when the feast was already half over Jesus went up into the temple and started to teach.

15And the Jews were marveling saying, “How is this man learned, not having been educated?” ²¹⁷

16So Jesus answered them and said: “What I teach is not mine, but His who sent me. ²¹⁸

17If anyone wants to do His will, ²¹⁹he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

18Someone who speaks on his own is seeking his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Moses versus the Jews

19“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! Why do you want to kill me?”

20The crowd answered and said, “You must have a demon! Who wants to kill you?” ²²⁰

21Jesus answered and said to them: “I did one work, and you all marvel.

22Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses, but from the patriarchs), ²²¹and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Law of Moses won't be broken, are you angry at me because I made a whole man ²²²well on the Sabbath? ²²³

24Stop judging on the basis of appearances, but judge the righteous judgment.”

Public opinion divided

25Now some of the Jerusalemites were saying: “Isn't this the man they are wanting to kill?

26Yet look! He is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to Him. Could it be true that the rulers know that this is really the Christ?

27On the other hand, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ comes nobody knows where He is from.” ²²⁴

28So Jesus called out in the temple, teaching and saying: “You do know me, and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the One who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

29I do know Him because I am from Him, and He sent me.” ²²⁵

30So they tried to arrest Him, yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

31Now many of the crowd were believing into Him, and they were saying, “Whenever the Christ comes He won't perform more signs than these which this man has done, will He?”

32The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Him, so the Pharisees and the chief priests sent operatives to arrest Him.

33Then Jesus said: “For a little while I am still with you, and then I go to the One who sent me.

34You will look for me and not find me; also, where I am you cannot come.” ²²⁶

35So the Jews said among themselves: “Where does this fellow intend to go that we won't find him? He doesn't intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?

36What word is this that he spoke, ‘You will look for me and not find me’; also, ‘where I am you cannot come’?”

The last day of the Feast

37Now on the last and most important day of the Feast, Jesus stood up and called out saying: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

38The one believing into me, just as the Scripture has said, out from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.” ²²⁷

39(Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those believing into Him were going to receive, ²²⁸in that the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

40So upon hearing this word many from the crowd began to say, “This One really is ‘the Prophet’!”

41Others were saying, “This One is the Christ!” Others were saying: “Surely the Christ isn't coming out of Galilee, is He?

42Doesn't the Scripture say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?” ²²⁹

43So there developed a division in the crowd because of Him.

44Further, some of them were wanting to arrest Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.

The operatives are empty-handed

45Then the operatives came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why haven't you brought him?”

46The operatives answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

47So the Pharisees answered them: “You haven't been fooled too, have you?

48None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they?

49But this crowd that doesn't know the law is accursed!”

50Nicodemus (the one who came to Him at night, being one of them) says to them,

51“Our law doesn't judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

52They answered and said to him: “You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Search and see that no prophet has ever arisen out of Galilee.” ²³⁰

53So each one went to his own house. ²³¹