John 7:1–18 · BSB
7:1
After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
7:2
However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
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7:3
So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
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For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
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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.
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The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
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Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
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Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.
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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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About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
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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.
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If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
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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.
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