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After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
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His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
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For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
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For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
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Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
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The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
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You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
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Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
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But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
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The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
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There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”
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Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
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But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
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The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
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Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
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If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
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He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
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Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
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The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
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Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.
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Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
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If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
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Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
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Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
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Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
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However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
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Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
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I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
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They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
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But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
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The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
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Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
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You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
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The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
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What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”
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Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
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He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
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But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
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Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
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Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
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Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
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So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
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Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
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The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
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The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
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Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
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But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
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Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
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“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
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They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
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Everyone went to his own house,
WEB: World English Bible (Protestant edition). Public domain.