Jesus Teaches at the Feast

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. vvv He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews [there] were trying to kill Him. 2 However, the vvv Jewish Feast of Tabernacles[fn] was near. 3 So [Jesus’] brothers said to Him,“Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may see [the] works You are doing. 4 For no one [who] wants to be [known] vvv publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.” 5 For [even] His [own] brothers did {not} believe in Him.

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Therefore Jesus told them,“Although your time is always at hand, My time {has} not yet come. 7 The world vvv cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil. 8 Go up to the feast on your own. I {am} not yet[fn] going up to this feast, because [My] time {has} not yet come.”

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Having said [this] to them,[fn] [Jesus] remained in Galilee. 10 But [after] His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went — not publicly, but in secret.

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So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking,“Where is He?”

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Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said,“He is a good [man].”

But others replied,“No He deceives the people.”

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Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.

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vvv vvv About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple [courts][fn] and began to teach. 15 The Jews were amazed [and] asked,“How {did} this [man] attain [such] learning without having studied?”

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“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied“[It comes] from Him who sent Me. 17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether [My] teaching is from God or [whether] I speak on My own. 18 He who speaks on his own [authority] seeks [his] own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the [One who] sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood. 19 {Has} not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps vvv [it]. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

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“You have a demon,” the crowd replied.“Who is trying to kill You?”

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Jesus answered them,“I did one miracle, and vvv you are all amazed. 22 [But] because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on [the] Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.) 23 If a boy vvv can be circumcised on [the] Sabbath so that the law of Moses {will} not be broken, [why] are you angry with Me for making [the] whole man well on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by outward appearances, [and start] judging justly

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