John 7:2-16

²Now the Jewish Festival of Shelters was near.

³His brothers therefore said to him, “Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works that you do.

⁴No one does anything in secret if he himself wants to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

⁵For even his brothers did not believe in him.

⁶Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

⁸You go up to the festival; I am not going to this festival because my time has not yet been fulfilled.”

⁹After he said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not publicly but in secret.

¹¹The Jews were looking for him at the festival and said, “Where is he?”

¹²There was much discussion among the crowds about him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “No, he leads the crowds astray.”

¹³Yet no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach.

¹⁵Then the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this man know so much? He has never been educated.”

¹⁶Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but is of him who sent me.