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Jesus at the Feast of Booths

¹ After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because ^(a)the Jews^[a] were seeking to kill him. ² Now ^(b)the Jews' Feast of ^(c)Booths was at hand. ^3 (d)So his brothers^[b] said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. ⁴ For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, ^(e)show yourself to the world." ^5 (f)For not even ^(g)his brothers believed in him. ⁶ Jesus said to them, ^(h)"My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but ⁽ⁱ⁾it hates me because I testify about it that ^(j)its works are evil. ⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not^[c] going up to this feast, for ^(k)my time has not yet fully come." ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

¹⁰ But after ^(l)his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. ^11 (m)The Jews ⁽ⁿ⁾were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?" ¹² And there was much ^(o)muttering about him among the people. ^(p)While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, ^(q)he is leading the people astray." ¹³ Yet ^(r)for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

¹⁴ About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^(s)into the temple and began teaching. ¹⁵ The Jews therefore ^(t)marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning,^[d] when he has never studied?" ¹⁶ So Jesus answered them, ^(u)"My teaching is not mine, but his ^(v)who sent me. ^17 (w)If anyone's will is to do God's^[e] will, ^(x)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^(y)am speaking on my own authority. ¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority ^(z)seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. ^19 (aa)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(ab)Why do you seek to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd answered, ^(ac)"You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?" ²¹ Jesus answered them, "I did ^(ad)one work, and you all marvel at it. ^22 (ae)Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(af)from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^(ag)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ^24 (ah)Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom ^(ai)they seek to kill? ²⁶ And here he is, ^(aj)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(ak)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷ But ^(al)we know ^(am)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(an)no one will know where he comes from." ²⁸ So Jesus proclaimed, ^(ao)as he taught in the temple, ^(ap)"You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(aq)I have not come of my own accord. ^(ar)He who sent me is true, ^(as)and him you do not know. ^29 (at)I know him, for I come ^(au)from him, and ^(av)he sent me." ^30 (aw)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(ax)no one laid a hand on him, ^(ay)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ Yet ^(az)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(ba)"When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(bb)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(bc)officers to arrest him. ³³ Jesus then said, ^(bd)"I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(be)I am going to him who sent me. ^34 (bf)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come." ³⁵ The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(bg)Does he intend to go to ^(bh)the Dispersion among ^(bi)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean by saying, ^(bj)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, ‘Where I am you cannot come'?"

Rivers of Living Water

^37 (bk)On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^(bl)"If anyone thirsts, let him ^(bm)come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, ^(bn)as^[f] the Scripture has said, ^(bo)‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^(bp)living water.'" ³⁹ Now ^(bq)this he said about the Spirit, ^(br)whom those who believed in him were to receive, ^(bs)for as yet the Spirit had not been ^(bt)given, ^(bu)because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰ When they heard these words, ^(bv)some of the people said, "This really is ^(bw)the Prophet." ⁴¹ Others said, "This is ^(bx)the Christ." But some said, ^(by)"Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^(bz)from the offspring of David, and comes ^(ca)from Bethlehem, the village ^(cb)where David was?" ⁴³ So there was ^(cc)a division among the people over him. ^44 (cd)Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

^45 (ce)The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" ⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(cf)"No one ever spoke like this man!" ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them, ^(cg)"Have you also been deceived? ^48 (ch)Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed." ^50 (ci)Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ^51 (cj)"Does our law judge a man without first ^(ck)giving him a hearing and learning what he does?" ⁵² They replied, ^(cl)"Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ^(cm)no prophet arises from Galilee."

[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]^[g]

The Woman Caught in Adultery

⁵³ [[They went each to his own house,