John 7:1–18

The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers

⁷After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.^{* 2}Now the Jewish Festival of Boothsⁱ 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^j 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^k going to this festival, for my time has not yet fully come.” ⁹After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

Jesus at the Festival of Booths

¹⁰But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but, as it were,^l in secret. ¹¹The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?” ¹²And 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.^*

¹⁴About the middle of the festival Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. ¹⁵The Jews were astonished at it, saying, “How does this man have such learning, 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 unjust in him.^*