John 7:6-20

⁶Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you.

⁷It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

⁸Go you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.

⁹Having said these things to them, he still kept in Galilee.

¹⁰But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret.

¹¹At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?

¹²And there was much discussion about him among the mass of the people. Some said, He is a good man; but others said, No, he is giving people false ideas.

¹³But no man said anything about him openly for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.

¹⁵Then the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He has never been to school.

¹⁶Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

¹⁷If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from — from God or from myself.

¹⁸The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him — that man is true and there is no evil in him.

¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

²⁰The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?