John 7:6-15

⁶“My time,” answered Jesus, “is not come yet, but your time is always here.

⁷The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

⁸Go yourselves up to the Festival; I am not going to this Festival yet, because my time has not yet come.”

⁹After telling them this, he stayed on in Galilee.

¹⁰But, when his brothers had gone up to the Festival, Jesus also went up — not publicly, but privately.

¹¹The authorities were looking for him at the Festival and asking ‘Where is he?’;

¹²and there were many whispers about him amongst 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?”