John 7:1-24

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Unbelief of Jesus’ Brothers

7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish^[a] to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. ² Now the Jewish festival of Booths^[b] was near. ³ So his brothers said to him, ‘Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing; ⁴ for no one who wants^[c] to be widely known acts in secret. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.’ ⁵ (For not even his brothers believed in him.) ⁶ Jesus said to them, ‘My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil. ⁸ Go to the festival yourselves. I am not^[d] going to this festival, for my time has not yet fully come.’ ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

Jesus at the Festival of Booths

¹⁰ But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were^[e] in secret. ¹¹ The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, ‘Where is he?’ ¹² And there was considerable complaining about him among the crowds. While some were saying, ‘He is a good man’, others were saying, ‘No, he is deceiving the crowd.’ ¹³ Yet no one would speak openly about him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ About the middle of the festival Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. ¹⁵ The Jews were astonished at it, saying, ‘How does this man have such learning,^[f] when he has never been taught?’ ¹⁶ Then Jesus answered them, ‘My teaching is not mine but his who sent me. ¹⁷ Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. ¹⁸ Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.

¹⁹ ‘Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?’ ²⁰ The crowd answered, ‘You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?’ ²¹ Jesus answered them, ‘I performed one work, and all of you are astonished. ²² Moses gave you circumcision (it is, of course, not from Moses, but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath in order that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I healed a man’s whole body on the sabbath? ²⁴ Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgement.’