1Jesus decided to leave Judea and to start going through Galilee because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.
2It was almost time for the Festival of Shelters, but your time is always here.
7The people of this world cannot hate you. They hate me, because I tell them that they do evil things.
8Go on to the festival. My time hasn't yet come, and I am not going.”
9Jesus said this and stayed on in Galilee.
Jesus at the Festival of Shelters10After Jesus' brothers had gone to the festival, he went secretly, without telling anyone.
11During the festival the Jewish leaders looked for Jesus and asked, “Where is he?”
12The crowds even got into an argument about him. Some were saying, “Jesus is a good man,” while others were saying, “He is lying to everyone.”
13But the people were afraid of their leaders, and none of them talked in public about him.
14When the festival was about half over, Jesus went into the temple and started teaching.
15The leaders were surprised and said, “How does this man know so much? He has never been taught!”
16Jesus replied:
I am not teaching something that I thought up. What I teach comes from the one who sent me.
17If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me.
18If I wanted to bring honour to myself, I would speak for myself. But I want to honour the one who sent me. That is why I tell the truth and not a lie.
19Didn't Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you obey it! So why do you want to kill me?
20The crowd replied, “You're mad! What makes you think someone wants to kill you?”
21Jesus answered:
I performed one miracle, and it amazed you.
22Moses commanded you to circumcise your sons. But it wasn't really Moses who gave you this command. It was your ancestors, and even on the Sabbath you circumcise your sons
31A lot of people in the crowd put their faith in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won't perform more miracles than this man has done!”
Officers sent to arrest Jesus32When the Pharisees heard the crowd arguing about Jesus, they got together with the chief priests and sent some temple police to arrest him.
33But Jesus told them, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I will return to the one who sent me.
34You will look for me, but you won't find me. You cannot go where I am going.”
35The Jewish leaders asked each other, “Where can he go to keep us from finding him? Is he going to some foreign country where our people live? Is he going there to teach the Greeks?
36What did he mean by saying that we will look for him, but won't find him? Why can't we go where he is going?”
Streams of life-giving water37On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “If you are thirsty, come to me and drink!The people take sides
40When the crowd heard Jesus say this, some of them said, “He must be the Prophet!”
41Others said, “He is the Messiah!” Others even said, “Can the Messiah come from Galilee?
42The Scriptures say that the Messiah will come from the family of King David. Doesn't this mean that he will be born in David's home town of Bethlehem?” He said,Jn 3.1,2.
51“Our Law doesn't let us condemn people before we hear what they have to say. We cannot judge them before we know what they have done.”
52Then they said, “Nicodemus, you must be from Galilee! Read the Scriptures, and you will find that no prophet is to come from Galilee.”
A woman caught in sin53Everyone else went home,
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