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followers can see your miracles! 4 You can’t
become famous if you hide like this! If you
can do such wonderful things, show yourself
to the world!” 5 For even his brothers didn’t
believe in him.
6 Jesus replied, “Now is not the right time
for me to go, but you can go anytime. 7 The
world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil. 8 You go on. I’m
not going* to this festival, because my time
has not yet come.” 9After saying these things,
Jesus remained in Galilee.
Jesus Teaches Openly at the Temple
after his brothers left for the festival,
Jesus also went, though secretly, staying out
of public view. 11 The Jewish leaders tried to
find him at the festival and kept asking if
anyone had seen him. 12 There was a lot of
grumbling about him among the crowds.
Some argued, “He’s a good man,” but others
said, “He’s nothing but a fraud who deceives
the people.” 13 But no one had the courage to
speak favorably about him in public, for they
were afraid of getting in trouble with the Jew
ish leaders.
14 Then, midway through the festival, Jesus
went up to the Temple and began to teach.
15 The people* were surprised when they heard
him. “How does he know so much when he
hasn’t been trained?” they asked.
16 So Jesus told them, “My message is not
my own; it comes from God who sent me.
17Anyone who wants to do the will of God will
know whether my teaching is from God or is
merely my own. 18 Those who speak for themselves want glory only for themselves, but a
person who seeks to honor the one who sent
him speaks truth, not lies. 19 Moses gave you
the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you
are trying to kill me.”
20 The crowd replied, “You’re demon possessed! Who’s trying to kill you?”
21 Jesus replied, “I did one miracle on the
Sabbath, and you were amazed. 22 But you
work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey
Moses’ law of circumcision. (Actually, this
tradition of circumcision began with the patriarchs, long before the law of Moses.) 23 For
if the correct time for circumcising your son
falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it
so as not to break the law of Moses. So why
should you be angry with me for healing a
man on the Sabbath? 24 Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”
10 But
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Is Jesus the Messiah?
25 Some of the people who lived in Jerusalem
started to ask each other, “Isn’t this the man
they are trying to kill? 26 But here he is, speaking in public, and they say nothing to him.
Could our leaders possibly believe that he is
the Messiah? 27 But how could he be? For we
know where this man comes from. When the
Messiah comes, he will simply appear; no one
will know where he comes from.”
28 While Jesus was teaching in the Temple,
he called out, “Yes, you know me, and you
know where I come from. But I’m not here
on my own. The one who sent me is true,
and you don’t know him. 29 But I know him
because I come from him, and he sent me to
you.” 30 Then the leaders tried to arrest him;
but no one laid a hand on him, because his
time* had not yet come.
31 Many among the crowds at the Temple
believed in him. “After all,” they said, “would
you expect the Messiah to do more miraculous signs than this man has done?”
32 When the Phar
i
sees heard that the
crowds were whispering such things, they
and the leading priests sent Temple guards to
arrest Jesus. 33 But Jesus told them, “I will be
with you only a little longer. Then I will return
to the one who sent me. 34 You will search for
me but not find me. And you cannot go where
I am going.”
35 The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this
statement. “Where is he planning to go?” they
asked. “Is he thinking of leaving the country
and going to the Jews in other lands?* Maybe
he will even teach the Greeks! 36 What does he
mean when he says, ‘You will search for me
but not find me,’ and ‘You cannot go where
I am going’?”
Jesus Promises Living Water
the last day, the climax of the festival,
Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! 38Anyone
who believes in me may come and drink! For
the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water
will flow from his heart.’”* 39 (When he said
“living water,” he was speaking of the Spirit,
who would be given to everyone believing in
him. But the Spirit had not yet been given,* because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.)
37 On
Division and Unbelief
40 When the crowds heard him say this, some
of them declared, “Surely this man is the
7:8 Some manuscripts read not yet going.
7:15 Greek Jewish people.
7:30 Greek his hour.
7:35 Or the Jews who live among
the Greeks?
7:37-38 Or “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will
flow from the heart of anyone who believes in me.’”
7:39 Several early manuscripts read But as yet there was no Spirit. Still
others read But as yet there was no Holy Spirit.
