John 7:6-24 - Jesus At The Feast Of Tabernacles

⁶ Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you. ⁷ It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked. ⁸ Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to it yet, for it is not quite time for me to go." ⁹ He told them this and stayed on in Galilee.

¹⁰ But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He went up too, not publicly but, as it were, privately. ¹¹ Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?" ¹² And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses. ¹³ And yet, for fear of the Jews, nobody dared to speak in public about Him.

¹⁴ Now when the feast was already half over, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach. ¹⁵ The Jews were dumbfounded and said, "How can this uneducated man know the Scriptures?"

¹⁶ Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but it comes from Him who sent me. ¹⁷ If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas. ¹⁸ Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him. ¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one of you is keeping that law. If so, why are you trying to kill me?"

²⁰ The crowd answered, "You are certainly under the power of a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

²¹ Jesus answered them, "I have done just one deed, and yet you are all dumbfounded! ²² Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath. ²³ Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ Stop judging superficially; you must judge fairly."