7 After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not want to stay in Judea, because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to put him to death. 2 Now the Jewish festival of Tabernacles[603] was near. 3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your students may observe the miraculous works you are doing. 4 For no one does things secretly if he wants to be in the public eye. If you are doing these things, let the world see what you are doing.”  5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.  6 Jesus then said to them, “My decisive moment is still to come, but any time is right for you. 7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I am witnessing to the fact that its activities are evil.  8 You go on up to the festival: I am not going up to the festival now because the right time for me has not fully come.”  9 With these words, he stayed behind in Galilee.
    10 But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up, not publicly, but in secret.  11 At the festival the Jews were looking for him and asking, “Where is he?”  12 And there was much complaining about him among the people. Some said, “He is a good man,” but others said, “No, he is deceiving the people.”  13 But no one said anything about him openly, for fear of the Jews.
    14 Now in the middle of the festival Jesus went up to the Temple and began teaching. 15 Then the Jews were astonished and said, “Where did this man get all this knowledge[604] from? He has never been to school formally.”  16 Jesus gave them this answer: “It is not my own teaching, but it comes from the One who commissioned me.  17 If anyone is willing[605] to do God’s will he will fully recognize this teaching and where it comes from — from God or from my own initiative.  18 The man whose teachings come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of Him who sent him — that man is genuine, and there is nothing false about him.
    19 “Did not Moses give you the Law? Even so, none of you keeps the Law. Why are you wanting to put me to death?” 20 The people answered, “You have a demonic spirit! Who wants to put you to death?”  21 Jesus answered, “I have performed one miraculous work and you are all shocked by it. 22 Moses gave you circumcision — not that it comes actually from Moses, but from the patriarchs — and on that account you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath. 23 If a child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a whole man healthy on the Sabbath?  24 Stop basing your decisions on appearance, and make honest judgments.”
    25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Is not this the man whom the authorities are trying to kill?  26 And here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers know in fact that this really is the Messiah? 27 However, it is clear to us where this man comes from, but when the Messiah comes no one will know where he comes from.” Then, while teaching in the Temple, 28 Jesus shouted out: “You know about me. You know where I came from; and I have not come on my own authority; but there is One who has commissioned me; He is true, but you have no knowledge of Him.  29 I know Him because I came from Him[606] and He commissioned me.” 30 Then they wanted to seize him, but no one arrested him because his hour was still to come. 31 And many of the people believed in him, and they said, “When the Messiah comes will he do more signs than this man has done?”
    32 This discussion among the people came to the ears of the Pharisees, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to seize him. 33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to Him who commissioned me. 34 You will be looking for me, and you will not find me: and where I am going you may not come.”  35 So the Jews said among themselves, “Where is he going where we will not be able to see him? Will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks? 36 What does he mean by this: ‘You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am going you may not come?’”
    37 On the great, last day of the feast of Tabernacles, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If any of you is thirsty let him come to me and let him drink. 38 He who believes and obeys me, out of his inner person,[607] as Scripture has said, will come rivers of living water.”  39 He meant by this the spirit which would be given to those who believed and obeyed him. For the spirit was not yet present[608] because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
    40 Hearing these words some of the people said, “This certainly must be the prophet.” [609] 41 Others were saying, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “That is not right; will the Messiah come from Galilee? 42 Does not Scripture tell us that the Messiah is a descendant of David and from Bethlehem, the little town where David lived?”  43 So there was a division among the people because of him. 44 And some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.
    45 Then the temple police went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him with you?”  46 The police officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man.” 47 So the Pharisees said to them, “Are you being deceived just like the others? 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or any one of the Pharisees? 49 But these people who are ignorant of the Law are cursed.” 50 Nicodemus, the one who had come to Jesus earlier — and he was one of the ruling Pharisees — said to them, 51 “Is a man to be judged by our law before it is heard what he has to say, and before we know what he has done?” 52 This was their answer: “Are you also one of those people from Galilee? Do some research, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.” 53 And they all went to their homes. [610]