^2 (A)Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. ^3 (B)His brothers therefore said to Him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing. ⁴ For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.” ⁵ For ^(C)even His ^(D)brothers did not believe in Him.

⁶ Then Jesus said to them, ^(E)“My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ^7 (F)The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me ^(G)because I testify of it that its works are evil. ⁸ You go up to this feast. I am not ^[a]yet going up to this feast, ^(H)for My time has not yet fully come.” ⁹ When He had said these things to them, He remained in Galilee.

The Heavenly Scholar

¹⁰ But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. ¹¹ Then ^(I)the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, “Where is He?” ¹² And ^(J)there was much complaining among the people concerning Him. ^(K)Some said, “He is good”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He deceives the people.” ¹³ However, no one spoke openly of Him ^(L)for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and ^(M)taught. ^15 (N)And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”

^16 [b]Jesus answered them and said, ^(O)“My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me. ^17 (P)If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority. ^18 (Q)He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who ^(R)seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and ^(S)no unrighteousness is in Him. ^19 (T)Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? ^(U)Why do you seek to kill Me?”

²⁰ The people answered and said, ^(V)“You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill You?”

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you all marvel. ^22 (W)Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, ^(X)but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because ^(Y)I made a man completely well on the Sabbath? ^24 (Z)Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

Could This Be the Christ?

²⁵ Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to ^(AA)kill? ²⁶ But look! He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. ^(AB)Do the rulers know indeed that this is ^[c]truly the Christ? ^27 (AC)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, ^(AD)“You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and ^(AE)I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me ^(AF)is true, ^(AG)whom you do not know. ^29 [d]But ^(AH)I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

³⁰ Therefore ^(AI)they sought to take Him; but ^(AJ)no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. ³¹ And ^(AK)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 ^[e]to them, ^(AL)“I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I ^(AM)go to Him who sent Me. ³⁴ You ^(AN)will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you ^(AO)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 ^(AP)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 (AQ)On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ^(AR)“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. ^38 (AS)He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, ^(AT)out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” ^39 (AU)But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those ^[f]believing in Him would receive; for the ^[g]Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^(AV)glorified.

Who Is He?

⁴⁰ Therefore ^[h]many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is ^(AW)the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is ^(AX)the Christ.”

But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? ^42 (AY)Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, ^(AZ)where David was?” ⁴³ So ^(BA)there was a division among the people because of Him. ⁴⁴ Now ^(BB)some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

Rejected by the Authorities

⁴⁵ Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(BC)“No man ever spoke like this Man!”

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus ^(BD)(he who came to ^[i]Jesus ^[j]by night, being one of them) said to them, ^51 (BE)“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

⁵² They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for ^(BF)no prophet ^[k]has arisen out of Galilee.”

An Adulteress Faces the Light of the World

^53 [l]And everyone went to his own house.

Jesus the Light of the World

8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

² Now ^[a]early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and ^(A)taught them. ³ Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, ⁴ they said to Him, “Teacher, ^[b]this woman was caught in ^(B)adultery, in the very act. ^5 (C)Now ^[c]Moses, in the law, commanded us ^[d]that such should be stoned. But what do You ^[e]say?” ⁶ This they said, testing Him, that they ^(D)might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, ^[f]as though He did not hear.

⁷ So when they continued asking Him, He ^[g]raised Himself up and said to them, ^(E)“He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” ⁸ And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ Then those who heard it, ^(F)being^[h] convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. ¹⁰ When Jesus had raised Himself up ^[i]and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers ^[j]of yours? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.”

And Jesus said to her, ^(G)“Neither do I condemn you; go ^[k]and ^(H)sin no more.”