John 7 (NMV)
1 After this, Jesus traveled around in Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews there were looking for a way to kill Him.
2 Now the Jewish Festival of Shelters was near.
3 So His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see the works You are doing.
4 For no one does anything in secret while he's seeking to be known openly. If You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world."
5 (For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.)
6 Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always right.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify that its works are evil.
8 You go up to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because My time has not yet fully come."
9 After He had said these things, He stayed in Galilee.
10 But after His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly, but secretly.
11 The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and asking, "Where is He?"
12 And there was widespread whispering about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He's a good man." Others were saying, "No, He's deceiving the people."
13 Still, no one was speaking openly about Him for fear of the Jews.
14 When the festival was already halfway over, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach.
15 The Jews were amazed and said, "How is this man so learned, since He hasn't been trained?"
16 Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not Mine but comes from the One who sent Me.
17 If anyone wants to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.
18 The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the One who sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
19 Didn't Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you keeps the Law. Why are you trying to kill Me?"
20 "You have a demon!" the crowd responded. "Who is trying to kill You?"
21 "I performed one work, and you are all amazed," Jesus answered.
22 "Because Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers), you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses won't be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?
24 Stop judging by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment."
25 Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?
26 Yet, look! He's speaking publicly, and they're saying nothing to Him. Could it be that the authorities really know He is the Messiah?
27 But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where He is from."
28 As He was teaching in the temple, Jesus cried out, "You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own. But the One who sent Me is true, and you do not know Him.
29 I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me."
30 Then they tried to seize Him. But no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.
31 However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, "When the Messiah comes, will He perform more signs than this man has done?"
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest Him.
33 Then Jesus said, "I am only with you for a short time. Then I am going to the One who sent Me.
34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come."
35 Then the Jews said to one another, "Where does He intend to go that we won't find Him? He doesn't intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks [non-Jews], does He?
36 What is this statement He made: 'You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"
37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
38 The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him."
39 He said this about the Spirit, those who believed in Him were going to receive the Spirit. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, "This truly is the Prophet."
41 Others said, "This is the Messiah!"
42 Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David's descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?"
43 So the crowd was divided because of Him.
44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45 Then the temple guards came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring Him?"
46 The guards answered, "No man ever spoke like this!"
47 Then the Pharisees responded to them, "Are you fooled too?
48 Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
49 But this crowd, which doesn't know the Law, is cursed!"
50 Nicodemus, the one who had previously gone to Him, and who was one of them, said to them,
51 "Our Law doesn't judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he's doing, does it?"
52 "You're not from Galilee too, are you?" they replied. "Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee."
53 Then each one went to his own house.