1After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews[1] were seeking to kill him. (Joh 5:18; Joh 8:37; Joh 8:40; Joh 11:53)2Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. (Le 23:34; Joh 5:1; Joh 6:4)3So his brothers[2] said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. (Mt 12:46; Joh 7:5; Joh 7:10)4For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” (Joh 14:22; Joh 18:20)5For not even his brothers believed in him. (Mt 13:57; Mr 3:21; Joh 7:3; Joh 7:10)6Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. (Joh 2:4; Joh 7:8; Joh 7:30)7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. (Joh 3:19; Joh 15:18; Joh 15:24; Col 1:21; 1Jo 3:12)8You go up to the feast. I am not[3] going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” (Joh 2:4)9After saying this, he remained in Galilee.10But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. (Joh 7:3; Joh 7:5)11The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” (Joh 7:1; Joh 11:56)12And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.” (Joh 7:32; Joh 7:40; Joh 7:47)13Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him. (Joh 9:22; Joh 12:42; Joh 19:38; Joh 20:19)14About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. (Joh 7:28)15The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning,[4] when he has never studied?” (Lu 2:47; Lu 4:22; Joh 7:46; Ac 4:13)16So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. (Joh 3:17; Joh 3:34; Joh 8:28; Joh 12:49; Joh 14:10; Joh 14:24)17If anyone’s will is to do God’s[5] will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. (Ps 25:9; Da 12:10; Joh 5:30; Joh 8:31; Joh 8:43; Joh 14:21; Joh 14:23; Php 3:15)18The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. (Joh 5:41; Joh 8:50)19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” (Joh 1:17; Joh 7:1; Joh 7:23)20The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” (Mt 11:18; Mr 3:22; Lu 7:33; Joh 8:48; Joh 8:52; Joh 10:20)21Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it. (Joh 5:2; Joh 7:23)22Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. (Ge 17:10; Le 12:3)23If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well? (Mt 12:2; Joh 5:16)24Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” (De 1:16; Isa 11:3; Joh 8:15; 2Co 10:7)
32The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. (Joh 7:12; Joh 7:45)33Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. (Joh 12:35; Joh 13:33; Joh 14:19; Joh 16:5; Joh 16:16)34You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” (Joh 8:21; Joh 13:33)35The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? (Isa 11:12; Zep 3:10; Joh 8:22; Joh 12:20; Jas 1:1; 1Pe 1:1)36What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?” (Joh 7:34)
40When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.” (Mt 21:11; Joh 1:21; Joh 6:14; Joh 7:31)41Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? (Joh 1:46; Joh 7:26; Joh 7:52)42Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” (1Sa 16:1; Ps 89:3; Mic 5:2; Mt 1:1; Mt 2:1; Mt 2:5; Lu 2:4)43So there was a division among the people over him. (Joh 7:12; Joh 9:16; Joh 10:19)44Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. (Joh 7:30)45The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” (Joh 7:32)46The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!” (Mt 7:29)47The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? (Joh 7:12)48Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? (Joh 12:42; 1Co 1:20; 1Co 1:26; 1Co 2:8)49But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”50Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, (Joh 3:1; Joh 19:39)51“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” (De 1:16; De 17:6; De 19:15; Pr 18:13; Ac 23:3)52They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” (Jos 19:13; 2Ki 14:25; Joh 7:41)