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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jesus' brothers said to him, "Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For even his own brothers did not believe in him. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Therefore Jesus told them, "My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, "Where is he?" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others replied, "No, he deceives the people." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The Jews there were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learning without having been taught?" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?" |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"You are demon-possessed," the crowd answered. "Who is trying to kill you?" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Now 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah? |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29but I know him because I am from him and he sent me." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?" |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Jesus said, "I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come." |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35The 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 among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36What did he mean when he said, 'You will look for me, but you will not find me,' and 'Where I am, you cannot come'?" |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40On hearing his words, some of the people said, "Surely this man is the Prophet." |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Others said, "He is the Messiah." Still others asked, "How can the Messiah come from Galilee? |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David's descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?" |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?" |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46"No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards replied. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47"You mean he has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48"Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law--there is a curse on them." |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51"Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?" |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee." |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53Then they all went home, |
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