1After these events, Jesus traveled through Galilee because he did not want to travel in Judea since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.
2Now the Jewish festival of Tabernacles was approaching.
3So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, so your followers can also see the miracles you're doing.
4No one who wants to be well-known does things in secret. If you're doing these things, show yourself to the world."
5This is because even his own brothers didn't believe in him.
6So Jesus told them, "My appointed time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I speak out against it, saying that its actions are evil.
8You go up to the festival. I am not going up to this festival now, because my appointed time has not yet arrived."
9After saying these things, he stayed in Galilee.
10But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went, not publicly, but somewhat in secret.
11So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the festival and asking, "Where is that man?"
12There was a lot of quiet talk among the crowds about him. Some people said, "He is a good man." Others said, "No, he isn't! He's leading people astray."
13However, no one spoke openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.
14But halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach.
15The Jewish leaders were amazed and said, "How does this man know so much, since he hasn't had any formal schooling?"
16Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but comes from the one who sent me.
17If anyone wants to do God's will, they will know whether my teaching comes from God or if I am speaking on my own.
18Anyone who speaks on their own seeks their own glory. But the person who seeks the glory of the one who sent them is truthful, and there is no dishonesty in him.
19Didn't Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
20The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"
21Jesus replied, "I performed one miracle, and you are all amazed by it.
22Moses gave you circumcision (though it didn't come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a boy even on the Sabbath.
23If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses isn't broken, why are you angry with me for making a man completely well on the Sabbath?
24Don't judge by outward appearances, but judge fairly.
25Then some people from Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?
26Look, he is speaking publicly, and they aren't saying anything to him. Could it be that the rulers actually know that this is truly the Christ?
27However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."
28So Jesus, while teaching in the temple, loudly announced, "You know me and you know where I come from. I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true, and you don't know him.
29I know him, because I am from him and he sent me."
30Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him because his time had not yet come.
31But many in the crowd believed in him. They asked, "When the Christ comes, will he perform more miraculous signs than this man has done?"
32The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for a little while longer, then I will go to the one who sent me.
34You will look for me, but you won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come."
35So the Jews said among themselves, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Jews scattered among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
36What does he mean by saying, 'You will look for me, but you won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"
37Now on the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and announced, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
38Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them."
39He was speaking about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40Therefore, when they heard these words, many in the crowd said, "This truly is the Prophet."
41Others said, "This is the Christ." But some asked, "Can the Christ come from Galilee?
42Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ will come from the family of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was from?"
43So, because of Jesus, there was a disagreement among the crowd.
44Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one actually touched him.
45The officers then went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him with you?”
46The officers replied, “No one has ever spoken like this man!”
47The Pharisees responded to them, “You haven’t been led astray as well, have you?
48Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him?
49But this crowd, who doesn’t understand the law, is cursed.”
50Nicodemus, one of their own (who had previously visited Jesus at night), asked them,
51“Does our law allow us to condemn a person without first hearing from them and finding out what they have done?”
52They replied to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Look it up and you’ll see that no prophet comes from Galilee.”
53Everyone then went home to their own house.