John 7:9-34

⁹When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.

¹¹The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day, and said: Where is he?

¹²And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people.

¹³Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

¹⁵And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?

¹⁶Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷If any man do the will of him; he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

¹⁸He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him.

¹⁹Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

²⁰Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered, and said: Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?

²¹Jesus answered, and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder:

²²Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.

²³If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?

²⁴Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.

²⁵Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth, that this is the Christ?

²⁷But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

²⁸Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching, and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself; but he that sent me, is true, whom you know not.

²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me.

³⁰They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

³¹But of the people many believed in him, and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles, than these which this man doth?

³²The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

³³Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me.

³⁴You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.