John 7:1-24

John 7

Up to Jerusalem

¹ After this, Jesus moved around in Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to find a way to kill him.

² Now the Jewish Festival of Shelters ^[1] was near. ³ So his brothers said to him, “You should leave here and go to Judea so your disciples there can also see the works you are doing. ⁴ Indeed, no one acts in secret who wants to be known in public. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” ⁵ For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

⁶ So Jesus told them, “The right time for me has not arrived yet, but any time is the right time for you. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. ⁸ You go up to the festival. I am not going up to this festival yet, ^[2] because the right time for me has not yet arrived.”

⁹ After he said this, he stayed in Galilee. ¹⁰ However, after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly but in a private way.

At the Festival of Shelters ^[3]

¹¹ At the festival, the Jews kept looking for him. They asked, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was widespread whispering about him in the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, he deceives the people.” ¹³ Yet no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach. ¹⁵ The Jews were amazed and asked, “How does this man know what is written without being instructed?”

¹⁶ Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but it comes from him who sent me. ¹⁷ If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or if I speak on my own. ¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own is seeking his own glory. But he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him—that is the one who is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. ¹⁹ Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you does what the law tells you. Why are you trying to kill me?”

²⁰ “You have a demon!” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹ Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you are all amazed. ²² Consider this: Because Moses has given you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers), you circumcise a man even on the Sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ Stop judging by outward appearance. Instead make a right judgment.”