John 7:14–36

¹⁴When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple^a and began to teach. ¹⁵Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned,^b since he hasn’t been trained?”

¹⁶Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.^{c 17}If anyone wants to do his will,^d he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. ¹⁸The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory;^e but he who seeks the glory^f of the one who sent him is true,^g and there is no unrighteousness in him.^{h 19}Didn’t Mosesⁱ give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law.^j Why are you trying to kill me?”

²⁰“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹“I performed one work,^k and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered. ²²“This is why Moses has given you circumcision^l—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers^m—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.^{n 23}If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath^o so that the law of Moses^p won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath? ²⁴Stop judging^q according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

THE IDENTITY OF THE MESSIAH

²⁵Some of the people of Jerusalem^r were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? ²⁶Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities^s know he is the Messiah?^{t 27}But we know where this man is from.^u When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.”

²⁸As he was teaching in the temple,^v Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me^w is true. You don’t know him;^{x 29}I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”^y

³⁰Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. ³¹However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done,^z will he?”

³²The Pharisees^aa heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests^ab and the Pharisees sent servants to arrest him.

³³Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time.^ac Then I’m going to the one who sent me.^{ad 34}You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”^ae

³⁵Then the Jews^af said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed^Bag among the Greeks^ah and teach the Greeks, does he? ³⁶What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’^ai?”