John 7:9-31

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9Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.
10But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went — not publicly, but in secret.
11So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
12Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”
13Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
14About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
15The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
16“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
18He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
20“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
21Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
22But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
23If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’ t this the man they are trying to kill?
26Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
27But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
29but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
31Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”
— John 7:9-31

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