^8 (A)At that time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly ^(B)from the entrance of Hamath to ^(C)the^[a] Brook of Egypt.

¹⁸ On the same day the Lord ^(A)made a covenant with Abram, saying:

^(B)“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—

⁶⁵ At that time Solomon held ^(A)a feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from ^(B)the entrance of Hamath to ^(C)the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, ^(D)seven days and seven more days—fourteen days.

^27 (A)However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.”

²⁸ Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, ^(B)“You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and ^(C)I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me ^(D)is true, ^(E)whom you do not know. ^29 [a]But ^(F)I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

³⁰ Therefore ^(G)they sought to take Him; but ^(H)no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. ³¹ And ^(I)many of the people believed in Him, and said, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?”

Jesus and the Religious Leaders

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him. ³³ Then Jesus said ^[b]to them, ^(J)“I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I ^(K)go to Him who sent Me. ³⁴ You ^(L)will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you ^(M)cannot come.”

³⁵ Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to ^(N)the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

^37 (O)On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ^(P)“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. ^38 (Q)He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, ^(R)out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” ^39 (S)But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those ^[c]believing in Him would receive; for the ^[d]Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^(T)glorified.

^2 (A)Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

The Nations Worship the King

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall ^(A)go up from year to year to ^(B)worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep ^(C)the Feast of Tabernacles. ^17 (D)And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. ¹⁸ If the family of ^(E)Egypt will not come up and enter in, ^(F)they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁹ This shall be the ^[a]punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Feast of Tabernacles^(A)

¹³ Now on the second day the heads of the fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and Levites, were gathered to Ezra the scribe, in order to understand the words of the Law. ¹⁴ And they found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in ^(B)booths^[a] during the feast of the seventh month, ¹⁵ and ^(C)that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and ^(D)in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and ^(E)bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

¹⁶ Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the ^(F)roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the ^(G)Water Gate ^(H)and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made ^[b]booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very ^(I)great gladness. ¹⁸ Also ^(J)day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast ^(K)seven days; and on the ^(L)eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed manner.

¹³ Now many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of ^(A)Unleavened Bread in the second month.