1 After this Jesus traveled about in Galilee; he chose not to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.
2 The Jewish feast of Tabernacles was approaching.
3 So his brothers told him, "Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples there too can see the works you do.
4 No one who wants to be publicly known does things in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."
5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 Jesus told them, "My time is not here yet, but for you any time is right.
7 The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify against it that what it does is evil.
8 You go on up to this feast. I am not going up to this feast yet, because my time has not yet been fulfilled."
9 After telling them this, he stayed on in Galilee.
10 But once his brothers had gone up, he too went up to the feast, not publicly but, so to speak, in secret.
11 At the feast the Jews kept looking for him and asking, "Where is that man?"
12 Among the crowds there was a great deal of whispering about him. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others said, "No, he is deceiving the people."
13 But no one would speak about him openly, for fear of the Jews.
14 When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach.
15 The Jews were amazed and said, "How does this man know his letters, when he has never been taught?"
16 Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own; it belongs to the one who sent me.
17 If anyone is willing to do his will, he will know whether the teaching comes from God or whether I am speaking on my own.
18 The one who speaks on his own is after his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is nothing false in him.
19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you carries out the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
20 The crowd answered, "You are demon-possessed! Who is trying to kill you?"
21 Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you are all amazed.
22 Moses gave you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers—and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with me for making a whole man healthy on the Sabbath?
24 Stop judging by outward appearance; judge with a just judgment."
25 Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, "Is this not the man they are trying to kill?
26 And here he is speaking in public, and they say nothing to him! Could it be that the authorities really know that this is indeed the Christ?
27 Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."
28 So Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple, called out, "You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own; but the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him.
29 I know him, because I come from him, and he is the one who sent me."
30 So they tried to arrest him, yet no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 But many in the crowd believed in him, and they kept saying, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these that this man has done?"
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about him, and the Pharisees and chief priests sent officers to arrest him.
33 Jesus said to them, "I will be with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
34 You will look for me and not find me; and where I am, you cannot come."
35 So the Jews said to one another, "Where is this man about to go that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?
36 What does he mean by saying, 'You will look for me and not find me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"
37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within him."
39 He said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 Many in the crowd, on hearing these words, said, "This man really is the Prophet."
41 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?
42 Does not the Scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"
43 So the crowd was split because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, yet no one laid hands on him.
45 The officers went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him in?"
46 The officers replied, "Never has anyone spoken the way this man speaks."
47 The Pharisees answered them, "Have you been led astray too?
48 Has a single one of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
49 But this crowd, which does not know the law, is under a curse."
50 Nicodemus, who had come to Jesus by night and who was one of them, said to them,
51 "Our law does not judge a man without first hearing him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"
52 They answered him, "Are you from Galilee too? Search, and you will see that no prophet has arisen from Galilee."
53 Then everyone went home.