The Unbelief of Jesus’ Brothers
1 After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee,since He did not want to travel in Judeabecause the Jewswere trying to kill Him.
2 The Jewish Festival of Tabernacleswas near,
3 so His brotherssaid to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your worksthat You are doing.
4 For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”
5 (For not even His brothers believed in Him.)
6 Jesus told them,“My timehas not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.
7 The world cannot hateyou, but it does hate Me because I testify about it — that its deeds are evil.
8 Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet,because My time has not yet fully come.”
9 After He had said these things, He stayed in Galilee.
Jesus at the Festival of Tabernacles
10 After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.
11 The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He? ”
12 And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a goodman.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceivingthe people.”
13 Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.
14 When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complexand began to teach.
15 Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures,since He hasn’t been trained? ”
16 Jesus answered them,“My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.
17 If anyone wants to do His will,he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.
18 The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory.But He who seeks the gloryof the One who sent Him is true,and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
19 Didn’t Mosesgive you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law!Why do you want to kill Me? ”
20 “You have a demon! ” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You? ”
21 “I did one work,and you are all amazed,”Jesus answered.
22 “Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision— not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers— and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbathso that the law of Moseswon’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?
24 Stop judgingaccording to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”
The Identity of the Messiah
25 Some of the people of Jerusalemwere saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?
26 Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authoritiesknow He is the Messiah?
27 But we know where this man is from.When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”
28 As He was teaching in the temple complex,Jesus cried out,“You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Meis true. You don’t know Him;
29 I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
30 Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hourhad not yet come.
31 However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done,will He? ”
32 The Phariseesheard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priestsand the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.
33 Then Jesus said,“I am only with you for a short time.Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.
34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
35 Then the Jewssaid to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersionamong the Greeksand teach the Greeks, does He?
36 What is this remark He made:‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’? ”
The Promise of the Spirit
37 On the last and most important day of the festival,Jesus stood up and cried out,“If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Meand drink!
38 The one who believes in Me,as the Scripturehas said,will have streams of living waterflowfrom deep within him.”
39 He said this about the Spirit.Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit,for the Spirithad not yet been receivedbecause Jesus had not yet been glorified.
The People Are Divided over Jesus
40 When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet! ”
41 Others said, “This is the Messiah! ” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?
42 Doesn’t the Scripturesay that the Messiah comes from David’soffspringand from the town of Bethlehem,where David once lived? ”
43 So a divisionoccurred among the crowd because of Him.
44 Some of them wanted to seize Him,but no one laid hands on Him.
Debate over Jesus’ Claims
45 Then the temple policecame to the chief priestsand Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him? ”
46 The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this! ”
47 Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooledtoo?
48 Have any of the rulersor Pharisees believed in Him?
49 But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed! ”
50 Nicodemus— the one who came to Him previously, being one of them — said to them,
51 “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ”
52 “You aren’t from Galileetoo, are you? ” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
53 So each one went to his house.
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