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John 7:11-29

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11The authorities were looking for him at the Festival and asking ‘Where is he?’;
12and there were many whispers about him among the people, some saying ‘He is a good man;’ others, ‘No! He is leading the people astray.’
13No one, however, spoke freely about him, because they were afraid of the authorities.
14About the middle of the Festival week, Jesus went up into the Temple Courts, and began teaching.
15The authorities were astonished. “How has this man got his learning,” they asked, “when he has never studied?”
16So, in reply, Jesus said, “My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.
17If anyone has the will to do God's will, they will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.
18The person who speaks on their own authority seeks honor for themselves; but the one who seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.
19Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?”
20“You must be possessed by a demon!” the people exclaimed. “Who is seeking to put you to death?”
21“There was one thing I did,” replied Jesus, “at which you are all still wondering.
22But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you — not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors — and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.
23When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?
24Do not judge by appearances; judge justly.”
25At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed, “Is not this the man who they are seeking to put to death?
26Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered that he is the Christ?
27Yet we know where this man is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell where he is from.”
28Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said, “Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.
29I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his messenger.”

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