John 7:1–18

¹And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him, ²and the feast of the Jews was nigh—that of tabernacles— ³his brethren, therefore, said unto him, ‘Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost; ⁴for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things—manifest thyself to the world;’ ⁵for not even were his brethren believing in him. ⁶Jesus, therefore, saith to them, ‘My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready; ⁷the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil. ⁸Ye—go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;’ ⁹and saying these things to them, he remained in Galilee. ¹⁰And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret; ¹¹the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, ‘Where is that one?’ ¹²and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said—‘He is good;’ and others said, ‘No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;’ ¹³no one, however, was speaking freely about him, through fear of the Jews.

¹⁴And it being now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple, and he was teaching, ¹⁵and the Jews were wondering, saying, ‘How hath this one known letters—not having learned?’ ¹⁶Jesus answered them and said, ‘My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me; ¹⁷if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or—I do speak from myself.

¹⁸‘He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;