¹And after that Jesus walked around in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk around in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a way to kill him. ²Now the festival of the Jews, Tabernacles, was near. ³Then his brothers said to him, “Move on from here and go to Judaea, so that your disciples also may see your works which you do, ⁴for no-one does a thing in secret when he is trying to be known in public himself. If you are doing these things, manifest yourself to the world.” ⁵For not even his brothers believed in him. ⁶So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come. But your time is always at hand. ⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it that its works are evil. ⁸You go up to this festival. I am not yet going up to this festival, for my time has not yet been fulfilled.” ⁹Then when he had said these things to them, he remained in Galilee. ¹⁰But when his brothers went up, then he went up to the festival as well – not openly, but as it were in secret. ¹¹Then the Jews looked for him at the festival and said, “Where is that man?” ¹²And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is good.” Others said, “No. Rather, he is misleading the crowd.” ¹³However, no-one spoke freely concerning him for fear of the Jews. ¹⁴Then when the festival was already half way through, Jesus went up to the temple and gave some teaching. ¹⁵And the Jews were amazed, and they said, “How come this man knows literature, not having studied it?” ¹⁶So Jesus replied to them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but of him who sent me. ¹⁷If anyone wishes to do his will, he will know about the teaching – whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own initiative. ¹⁸He who speaks on his own initiative seeks his own glory, but it is he who seeks the glory of him who sent him who is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. ¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for a way to kill me?” ²⁰The crowd answered and said, “You are possessed by a demon. Who is looking for a way to kill you?” ²¹Jesus answered and said to them, “I have performed one work, and you are all amazed. ²²For this reason Moses gave you circumcision – not that it was from Moses' time, but from the fathers' time – and you circumcise a man on a Sabbath. ²³If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath, in order that the law of Moses should not be broken, why are you angry at me because I cured a man in his entirety on the Sabbath? ²⁴Do not judge by appearance, but judge with a just judgment.” ²⁵Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Isn't this the one whom they are trying to kill? ²⁶And look, he is speaking openly, and they aren't saying anything to him. The leaders really have not established, have they, that this really is the Christ? ²⁷But we know where this man is from. However, when the Christ comes, no-one will know where he is from.” ²⁸So Jesus shouted out, while teaching in the temple, and he said, “You both know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come on my own initiative, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know. ²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” ³⁰Then they looked for a way to seize him, yet no-one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ³¹But many of the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Christ comes, surely he will not do more signs than these which this man has done?” ³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the Pharisees and senior priests sent officers to seize him. ³³Then Jesus said, “I will only be a little while with you still, and then I will go away to him who sent me. ³⁴You will look for me, but you will not find me. And where I am, you cannot go.” ³⁵Then the Jews said to themselves, “Where is he going to go, such that we won't find him? Is he going to go to the Diaspora among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What does this remark which he said mean, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me’, and, ‘Where I am, you cannot go’?” ³⁷Now on the last – the great – day of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸As regards him who believes in me, as the scripture says, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his inside.’ ” ³⁹He said this referring to the spirit which those who believed in him were about to receive, for there was not yet any holy spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. ⁴⁰Then many of the crowd who heard the statement said, “This man is truly the prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ.” Yet others said, “No, for surely the Christ does not come from Galilee? ⁴²Does not the scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” ⁴³So a division arose in the crowd on account of him. ⁴⁴And some of them wanted to seize him, but no-one laid hands on him. ⁴⁵Then the officers went to the senior priests and Pharisees, and those said to them, “Why did you not bring him here?” ⁴⁶The officers replied, “Never did a man speak in such a way as this man did.” ⁴⁷Then the Pharisees answered them, “You haven't gone astray too, have you? ⁴⁸None of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed him, have they? ⁴⁹But this crowd who do not know the law are strongly cursed.” ⁵⁰Nicodemus, who had come to him by night, who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹“Surely our law does not judge a man if it has not first heard from him and knows what he is doing?” ⁵²They answered and said to him, “You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Investigate and see: no prophet has arisen from Galilee.” ⁵³Then each went to his house.

Reference(s) in Chapter 7: v.38 ↔ Isaiah 12:3, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 58:11; Ezekiel 47:1; Joel 4:18^MT (Joel 3:18^AV), Zechariah 13:1, Zechariah 14:8. ● v.42 ↔ Psalm 89:30^MT-37^MT (Psalm 89:29^AV-36^AV), Psalm 132:11, Isaiah 11:1, Isaiah 11:10, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 33:15, Micah 5:1^MT (Micah 5:2^AV).