John 7:10-36

New International Version

¹⁰ However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. ¹¹ Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus^(A) and asking, “Where is he?”

¹² Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”

Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.”^{(B) 13} But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.^(C)

Jesus Teaches at the Festival

¹⁴ Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.^{(D) 15} The Jews^(E) there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning^(F) without having been taught?”^(G)

¹⁶ Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.^{(H) 17} Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out^(I) whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. ¹⁸ Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory,^(J) but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. ¹⁹ Has not Moses given you the law?^(K) Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”^(L)

²⁰ “You are demon-possessed,”^(M) the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹ Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle,^(N) and you are all amazed. ²² Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision^(O) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),^(P) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. ²³ Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? ²⁴ Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”^(Q)

Division Over Who Jesus Is

²⁵ At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?^{(R) 26} Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities^(S) really concluded that he is the Messiah?^{(T) 27} But we know where this man is from;^(U) when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”

²⁸ Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts,^(V) cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from.^(W) I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true.^(X) You do not know him, ²⁹ but I know him^(Y) because I am from him and he sent me.”^(Z)

³⁰ At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him,^(AA) because his hour had not yet come.^{(AB) 31} Still, many in the crowd believed in him.^(AC) They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs^(AD) than this man?”

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.

³³ Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time,^(AE) and then I am going to the one who sent me.^{(AF) 34} You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”^(AG)

³⁵ The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered^(AH) among the Greeks,^(AI) and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”^(AJ)