[7:1] After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
[7:2] Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand.
[7:3] So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
[7:4] For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
[7:5] For not even his brothers believed in him.
[7:6] Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
[7:7] The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
[7:8] You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”
[7:9] After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
[7:10] But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.
[7:11] The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”
[7:12] And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”
[7:13] Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
[7:14] About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.
[7:15] The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
[7:16] So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
[7:17] If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
[7:18] The one who speaks on his own authority 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.
[7:19] Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
[7:20] The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
[7:21] Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it.
[7:22] Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
[7:23] If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?
[7:24] Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”