1 And after these
2 Now the feast of the Jews—the
3 So his brothers said to him, “Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.
4 For no one does anything in secret and
5 (For not even his brothers believed in him.)
6 So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.
8 You go up to the feast. I am not
9 And
10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.
11 So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, “Where is he?”
12 And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, “He is a good
13 However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.
15 Then the Jews were astonished, saying, “How does this man
16 So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but
17 If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my
18 The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him—this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
19 Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
20 The crowd replied, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
21 Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work, and you are all astonished.
22 Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well
24 Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!”
25 Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say,
26 And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?
27 Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes—no one knows where he is from!”
28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple
29 I know him, because I am from him and he sent me.”
30 So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, “Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done,
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these
33 Then Jesus said, “Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me.
34 You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come.”
35 So the Jews said to one another, “Where
36 What is this saying that he said, ‘You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come’?”
37 Now on the last day of the feast—the great
38 the one who believes in me.
39 Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet
40 Then,
41 Others were saying, “This man is the Christ!” But others were saying, “No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee,
42 Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
43 So there was a division in the crowd because of him.
44 And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “
46 The officers replied, “Never has a man spoken like this!”
47 Then the Pharisees replied to them, “You have not also been deceived,
49 But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!”
50 Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously—who was one of them—said to them,
51 “Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing,
52 They answered and said to him, “You are not also from Galilee,
53 And each one went to his