Christ goes to a festival in Jerusalem and teaches there
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📚✭After these things Jesus went about in Galilee, for he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 📚✭Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. 3 📚✭So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so your disciples can also see the deeds you are doing. 4 📚For no man does things secretly while he seeks to be known publicly. If you are doing these things, reveal yourself to the world”. 5 📚For not even his brothers believed in him.
6 📚✭Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but for you the time is always right. 7 📚✭The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its deeds are evil. 8 📚You go on up to the feast. I am not going just yet to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come”.
9 After he said these words to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10 📚✭But after his brothers had gone, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but secretly.
11 📚✭Then the Jews looked for him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
12 📚✭And there was much grumbling among the people concerning him, for some said, “He is a good man”; others said, “No, on the contrary, he deceives the people”. 13 📚✭However no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews.
14 📚✭Now about halfway through the feast Jesus went up to the temple and taught. 15 📚 And the Jews were astonished, saying, “How does this man understand the writings✭, never having studied?”
16 📚✭Jesus answering them, said, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17 📚✭If anyone chooses to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own. 18 📚✭He who speaks on his own is seeking his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 19 📚✭Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keep the Law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
20 📚✭The people answered and said, “You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?”
21 📚✭Jesus answered and said to them, “I did one deed, and you are all amazed. 22 📚Therefore consider this: Moses gave 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, that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry at me because I have made a man completely well on the Sabbath? 24 📚✭Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment”.
25 📚✭Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Is not this the one whom they are seeking to kill? 26 📚But, look, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that he is the Christ? 27 📚However we know from where this man is. But when Christ comes, no man will know from where he is”.
28 📚✭Then Jesus cried out in the temple as he was teaching and said, “You both know me, and you know from where I am. And I have not come on my own. But he who sent me is true. Him you do not know. 29 📚But I know him, for I am from him, and he sent me”.
30 📚✭Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time was not yet come. 31 📚And many of the people believed in him, and said, “When Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs✭ than the ones this man has done?”
32 📚The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him, and the Pharisees✭ and the chief priests sent officers to seize him.
33 📚✭Then Jesus said to them, “I will be with you only a little while, and then I will go to him who sent me. 34 📚✭You will look for me, and will not find me, and you will not be able to come where I am”.
35 📚✭Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does he intend to go, that we will not find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks✭? 36 📚What kind of statement is this he has spoken, ‘You will look for me, and will not find me, and you will not be able to come where I am?’”
37 📚✭In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If any man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 📚He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his innermost being streams of living water will flow”. 39 📚✭(But he spoke this about the Spirit, whom those who believe in him would receive; for the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)✭
40 📚Therefore, many of the people, when they heard this statement, said, “Surely this is the Prophet”. 41 📚Others said, “This is the Christ”. But some said, “Will Christ✭ come from Galilee? 42 📚✭Has not the Scripture said that Christ will come from the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”
43 📚✭So there was a division among the people because of him. 44 📚And some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him. 45 📚✭Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why haven’t you brought him?”
46 📚The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man”.
47 📚✭Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? 48 📚✭Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him? 49 📚✭But this people who do not know the Law are accursed”.
50 📚✭Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus at night, being one of them) said to them, 51 📚✭“Does our Law judge any man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”
52 📚They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see, for no prophet arises out of Galilee”.
53 📚✭And every man went to his own house.