John 7:14–24

Jesus Teaches at the Festival

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

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

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

²¹Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle,^a and you are all amazed. ²²Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision^b (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),^c you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 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? ²⁴Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”^d