After this, Jesus ^awalked from place to place in Galilee, for He would not walk in Judea because ^bthe Jews ^cwere seeking to kill Him. 2 Now the Jewish ^1aFeast of Tabernacles (Booths) was approaching. 3 So His ^1abrothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your ^bdisciples there may also see the works that You do. 4 No one does anything in secret when he wants to be known publicly. If You must do these things, show Yourself openly to the world and make Yourself known!” 5 For not even His ^abrothers believed in Him. 6 So Jesus said to them, “^aMy time has not yet come; but any time is right for you. 7 ^aThe world cannot hate you since you are part of it, but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that ^bits deeds are evil. 8 Go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because ^aMy time has not yet fully come.” 9 Having said these things to them, He stayed behind in Galilee.

10 But afterward, when His ^abrothers had gone up to the feast, He went up too, not publicly with a caravan, but quietly because He did not want to be noticed. 11 ^aSo the Jews ^bkept looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?” 12 There was a lot of whispered discussion and murmuring among the crowds about Him. ^aSome were saying, “He is a good man”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He misleads the people giving them false ideas.” 13 Yet no one was speaking out openly and freely about Him for ^afear of the leaders of the Jews.

14 When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple court and began to ^ateach. 15 ^aThen the Jews were perplexed. They said, “How ¹did this man ^bbecome learned so versed in the Scriptures and theology ²without formal training?” 16 Jesus answered them by saying, “^aMy teaching is not My own, but His who sent Me. 17 ^aIf anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak on My own accord and by My own authority. 18 He who speaks on his own accord ^aseeks glory and honor for himself. But He who seeks the glory and the honor of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness or deception in Him.

19 “^aDid not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. Why do you ^bwant to kill Me for not keeping it?” 20 The crowd answered, “^aYou have a demon You are out of Your mind! Who wants to kill You?” 21 Jesus replied, “I did ^aone ¹work, and you are all astounded. John 5:1-9 22 For this reason ^aMoses has given you God’s law regarding circumcision (not that it originated with Moses, but with the ^bpatriarchs) and you circumcise a man even on the Sabbath. 23 ^aIf, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, a man undergoes ¹circumcision on the Sabbath, why are you angry with Me for making a man’s whole body well on the Sabbath? 24 Do not ^ajudge by appearance superficially and arrogantly, but judge fairly and righteously.”

25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Is this not the Man they want to kill? 26 Look, He is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to Him! Is it possible that ^athe rulers really know that this is the Christ? 27 But ^awe know where this Man is from; whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.” 28 Then Jesus called out as He ^ataught in the temple, “^bYou know Me and know where I am from; and ^cI have not come on my own initiative as self-appointed, but He who sent Me is true, and Him you do not know. 29 ^aI know Him Myself because ^bI am from Him I came from His very presence and it was ^cHe personally who sent Me.” 30 So they ^awere eager to arrest Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His ^btime had not yet come. 31 But ^amany from the crowd believed in Him. And they kept saying, “^bWhen the Christ comes, will He do more ^csigns and exhibit more proofs than this Man?”

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things under their breath about Him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^1aguards to ^barrest Him. 33 Therefore Jesus said, “^aFor a little while longer I am still with you, and then ^bI go to Him who sent Me. 34 ^aYou will look for Me, and will not be able to find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.” 35 Then ^athe Jews said among themselves, “^bWhere does this Man intend to go that we will not find Him? Does He intend to go to ^cthe Dispersion of Jews scattered and living among ^dthe Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36 What does this statement of His mean, ‘^aYou will look for Me, and will not be able to find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

37 Now on ^athe last and most important day of the feast, Jesus stood and called out in a loud voice, “^bIf anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink! 38 He who believes in Me who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Me, ^aas the Scripture has said, ‘From his innermost being will flow continually rivers of ^bliving water.’” Is 58:11; John 4:14 39 But He was speaking ^aof the Holy Spirit, whom those who believed in Him as Savior were to receive afterward. ^bThe Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet ^cglorified (raised to honor) .

40 Listening to these words, some of the people said, “This is certainly ^athe Prophet!” Deut 18:15, 18; John 1:21; 6:14; Acts 3:22 41 Others said, “This is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) !” But others said, “^aSurely the Christ is not going to come out of Galilee, is He? 42 Does the Scripture not say that the Christ comes from ^athe descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” Ps 89:3, 4; Mic 5:2 43 So the crowd was ^adivided because of Him. 44 ^aSome of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

45 Then the ^aguards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring Him here with you?” 46 The ^aguards replied, “^bNever at any time has a man talked the way this Man talks!” 47 Then the Pharisees said to them, “^aHave you also been deluded and swept off your feet? 48 ^aHas any of ^bthe rulers or Pharisees believed in Him? 49 But this ignorant, contemptible crowd that does not know the Law is accursed and doomed!” 50 ^aNicodemus (the one who came to Jesus before and was one of them) asked, 51 “^aDoes our Law convict someone without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is accused of doing?” 52 They responded, “^aAre you also from Galilee? Search and read the Scriptures, and see for yourself that no prophet comes from Galilee!” 53 [¹And everyone went to his own house.