Jesus at the Feast of Booths

7 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.

A Samaritan Village Rejects Jesus

⁵¹ When the days drew near for ^(A)him to be taken up, ^(B)he set his face ^(C)to go to Jerusalem. ⁵² And ^(D)he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of ^(E)the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. ⁵³ But ^(F)the people did not receive him, because ^(G)his face was set toward Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell ^(H)fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”^{[a] 55} But he turned and rebuked them.^{[b] 56} And they went on to another village.

The Cost of Following Jesus

¹⁸ Now ^(A)when Jesus saw a crowd around him, ^(B)he gave orders to go over to the other side. ^19 (C)And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” ²⁰ And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” ²¹ Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” ²² And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave ^(D)the dead to bury their own dead.”

The Cost of Following Jesus

⁵⁷ As they were going ^(A)along the road, ^(B)someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” ⁵⁸ And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” ⁵⁹ To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” ⁶⁰ And Jesus^[a] said to him, “Leave ^(C)the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and ^(D)proclaim the kingdom of God.” ⁶¹ Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, ^(E)but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” ⁶² Jesus said to him, ^(F)“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

¹⁰ But after ^(A)his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. ^11 (B)The Jews ^(C)were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was much ^(D)muttering about him among the people. ^(E)While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, ^(F)he is leading the people astray.” ¹³ Yet ^(G)for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

¹⁴ About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^(H)into the temple and began teaching. ¹⁵ The Jews therefore ^(I)marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning,^[a] when he has never studied?” ¹⁶ So Jesus answered them, ^(J)“My teaching is not mine, but his ^(K)who sent me. ^17 (L)If anyone's will is to do God's^[b] will, ^(M)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^(N)am speaking on my own authority. ¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority ^(O)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 (P)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(Q)Why do you seek to kill me?” ²⁰ The crowd answered, ^(R)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” ²¹ Jesus answered them, “I did ^(S)one work, and you all marvel at it. ^22 (T)Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(U)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, ^(V)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ^24 (W)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 ^(X)they seek to kill? ²⁶ And here he is, ^(Y)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(Z)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷ But ^(AA)we know ^(AB)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(AC)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸ So Jesus proclaimed, ^(AD)as he taught in the temple, ^(AE)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(AF)I have not come of my own accord. ^(AG)He who sent me is true, ^(AH)and him you do not know. ^29 (AI)I know him, for I come ^(AJ)from him, and ^(AK)he sent me.” ^30 (AL)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(AM)no one laid a hand on him, ^(AN)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ Yet ^(AO)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(AP)“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 ^(AQ)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(AR)officers to arrest him. ³³ Jesus then said, ^(AS)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(AT)I am going to him who sent me. ^34 (AU)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? ^(AV)Does he intend to go to ^(AW)the Dispersion among ^(AX)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean by saying, ^(AY)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

^37 (AZ)On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^(BA)“If anyone thirsts, let him ^(BB)come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, ^(BC)as^[c] the Scripture has said, ^(BD)‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^(BE)living water.’” ³⁹ Now ^(BF)this he said about the Spirit, ^(BG)whom those who believed in him were to receive, ^(BH)for as yet the Spirit had not been ^(BI)given, ^(BJ)because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰ When they heard these words, ^(BK)some of the people said, “This really is ^(BL)the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is ^(BM)the Christ.” But some said, ^(BN)“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^(BO)from the offspring of David, and comes ^(BP)from Bethlehem, the village ^(BQ)where David was?” ⁴³ So there was ^(BR)a division among the people over him. ^44 (BS)Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

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

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

The Woman Caught in Adultery

⁵³ [[They went each to his own house, 8 ¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ^2 (CC)Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and ^(CD)he sat down and taught them. ³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst ⁴ they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ Now ^(CE)in the Law, Moses commanded us ^(CF)to stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶ This they said ^(CG)to test him, ^(CH)that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ^(CI)“Let him who is without sin among you ^(CJ)be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰ Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, ^(CK)“Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on ^(CL)sin no more.”]]

I Am the Light of the World

^12 (CM)Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^(CN)“I am the light of the world. Whoever ^(CO)follows me will not ^(CP)walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³ So the Pharisees said to him, ^(CQ)“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴ Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ^(CR)my testimony is true, for I know ^(CS)where I came from and ^(CT)where I am going, but ^(CU)you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ^15 (CV)You judge according to the flesh; ^(CW)I judge no one. ¹⁶ Yet even if I do judge, ^(CX)my judgment is true, for ^(CY)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[e] who sent me. ^17 (CZ)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸ I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(DA)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹ They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(DB)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(DC)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰ These words he spoke in ^(DD)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(DE)no one arrested him, because ^(DF)his hour had not yet come.