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

6 Jesus therefore saith to them, My proper time is not yet come: but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil. 8 Go ye up to this feast: for I am not yet going up to this feast, because my fixed time is not yet arrived. 9 Thus speaking to them then, he continued in Galilee.

10 But as soon as his disciples were gone up, then went he also himself up to the feast: not in public, but as in concealment. 11 The Jews then sought for him at the feast, and said, Where is he? 12 And there was a great murmur concerning him among the multitude: some said, Surely he is a good man: others said, No; he only deceiveth the people. 13 Yet no person spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

14 But now at the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man the scriptures, not being a scholar?

16 Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know respecting the doctrine, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. 18 He that speaketh from himself, seeks his own individual honour: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and iniquity in him there is none. 19 Hath not Moses given you the law, yet none of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

20 The multitude answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who is seeking to kill thee?

21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have performed one work, and ye all marvel. 22 Because Moses ordered you circumcision; (not that it comes from Moses, but from our ancestors;) so ye circumcise a man on the sabbath-day. 23 If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath-day, that the law of Moses should not be violated; are ye incensed against me, because I have made a man whole on the sabbath-day? 24 Judge not by appearance, but judge righteous judgment.