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

⁶ "My time is not yet come," said Jesus, "but your time is always at hand. ⁷ "The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked. ⁸ Do you go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fully come." ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast,

¹⁰ then he went too??ot openly, but as it were a secret. ¹¹ The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one. ¹² and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

¹⁴ But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

¹⁶ In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." ¹⁷ "If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth." ¹⁸ "The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him. ¹⁹ "Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

²⁰ The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?"

²¹ Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed. ²² "Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath. ²³ "If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ "Do not judge according to appearance. Judge justly."