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¹ After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.² Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was nigh.³ His brethren therefore said to him, Depart hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples there also may see the works which thou dost.⁴ For no man doth any thing in secret, but desireth to be publickly known: if thou dost these things, shew thyself to the world.⁵ (For neither did his brethren believe on him.) Jesus saith to them, My time is not yet come: your time is always ready.⁶ The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth;⁷ because I testify of it, that its works are evil.⁸ Go ye up to the feast; I go not up to this feast yet; because my time is not yet fully come.⁹ Having said these things to them, he abode in Galilee.¹⁰ But when his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were privately.¹¹ Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?¹² And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him: for some said, He is a good man; others said, Nay; but he seduceth the people.¹³ However, no man spake openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ Now at the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.¹⁵ And the Jews marvelled, saying, How doth this man know letters, having never learned?¹⁶ Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.¹⁷ If any man be willing to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.¹⁸ He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory; but he that seekth the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law?²⁰ Yet none of you keepeth the law. Why seek ye to kill me? The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and ye all marvel at it.²² Moses gave you circumcision, (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and ye circumcise a man on the sabbath.²³ If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken: Are ye angry at me, because I intirely healed a man on the sabbath?²⁴ Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.²⁵ Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?²⁶ And lo he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed, that this is the Christ?²⁷ Howbeit, we know this man, whence he is: but when Christ cometh, none knoweth whence he is.²⁸ Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Do ye both know me, and know whence I am? And yet I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.²⁹ But I know him; for I am from him, and he hath sent me.³⁰ Then they sought to seize him; but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.³¹ And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?³² The Pharisees heard the people whispering such things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize him.³³ Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little time I am with you, and then I go to him that sent me.³⁴ Ye shall seek, and shall not find me, and where I am, ye cannot come.³⁵ Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?³⁶ What saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me? And where I am, ye cannot come?

³⁷ On the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.³⁸ He that believeth on me, out of his belly (as the scripture hath said) shall flow rivers of living water.³⁹ This he spake of the Spirit, which they who believed on him were to receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.⁴⁰ Many of the people therefore hearing this discourse, said, Certainly this is the prophet.⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ.⁴² But some said, Doth Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?⁴³ So there was a division among the people concerning him.⁴⁴ And some of them would have seized him; but no man laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?⁴⁷ The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. The Pharisees answered, Are ye also deceived?⁴⁸ Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?⁴⁹ But this populace, who know not the law, are accursed.⁵⁰ Nicodemus (he that had come to Jesus by night, being one of them) saith to them,⁵¹ Doth our law judge a man before it hear him, and know what he doth?⁵² They answered and said to him, Art thou also a Galilean?⁵³ Search and see, that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. And every man went to his own house.