John 7:9-17

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 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.