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The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers

¹ After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee,^(C1) since he did not want to travel in Judea^(C2) because the Jews^(C3) were trying to kill him.^{(C4) 2} The Jewish Festival of Shelters^(F1)(C1) was near. ³ So his brothers^(C1) said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples can see your works^(C2) that you are doing. ⁴ For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” ⁵ (For not even his brothers believed in him.)

⁶ Jesus told them, “My time⁷ The world cannot hate⁸ Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to this festival,⁹ After he had said these things, he stayed in Galilee.

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ After his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly but secretly. ¹¹ The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good^(C1) man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving^(C2) the people.” ¹³ Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple^(C1) and began to teach. ¹⁵ Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned,^(C1) since he hasn’t been trained?”

¹⁶ Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.¹⁷ If anyone wants to do his will,¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory;¹⁹ Didn’t Moses

²⁰ “You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹ “I performed one work,²² “This is why Moses has given you circumcision²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath²⁴ Stop judging

The Identity of the Messiah

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem^(C1) were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? ²⁶ Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities^(C1) know he is the Messiah?^{(C2) 27} But we know where this man is from.^(C1) When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.”

²⁸ As he was teaching in the temple,^(C1) Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me²⁹ I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”

³⁰ Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done,^(C1) will he?” ³² The Pharisees^(C1) heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests^(C2) and the Pharisees sent servants^(F1) to arrest him.

³³ Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time.³⁴ You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

³⁵ Then the Jews^(C1) said to one another, “Where does he intend to go so we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed^(F1)(C2) among the Greeks^(C3) and teach the Greeks, does he? ³⁶ What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’

The Promise of the Spirit

³⁷ On the last and most important day of the festival,^(C1) Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me³⁸ The one who believes in me,³⁹ He said this about the Spirit.^(C1) Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit,^(C2) for the Spirit^(F1) had not yet been given^(F2) because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

The People Are Divided over Jesus

⁴⁰ When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This truly is the Prophet.”^{(C1) 41} Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? ⁴² Doesn’t the Scripture^(C1) say that the Messiah comes from David’s^(C2) offspring^(F1) and from the town of Bethlehem,^(C3) where David lived?” ⁴³ So the crowd was divided^(C1) because of him. ⁴⁴ Some of them wanted to seize him,^(C1) but no one laid hands on him.

Debate over Jesus’s Claims

⁴⁵ Then the servants^(C1) came to the chief priests^(C2) and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

⁴⁶ The servants answered, “No man ever spoke like this!” ^(F1)(C1)

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled^(C1) too? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers^(C1) or Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus^(C1)—the one who came to him previously and who was one of them—said to them, ⁵¹ “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?” ^(C1)

⁵² “You aren’t from Galilee^(C1) too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”^(C2)

⁵³ Then each one went to his house.^(F1)