Jesus Goes to the Feast of Booths
1After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He didn’t want to travel around in Judea. That was because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. 2The Jewish Feast of Booths was near. 3Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea. Then your disciples there will see the works that you do. 4No one who wants to be well known does things in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5Even Jesus’ own brothers did not believe in him.
6So Jesus told them, “The time for me to show who I really am is not here yet. For you, any time would be the right time. 7The people of the world can’t hate you. But they hate me. This is because I am a witness that their works are evil. 8You go to the feast. I am not going up to this feast. This is because my time has not yet fully come.” 9After he said this, he stayed in Galilee.
10But when his brothers had left for the feast, he went also. But he went secretly, not openly. 11At the feast the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus. They were asking, “Where is he?”
12Many people in the crowd were whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”
Others replied, “No. He fools the people.” 13But no one would say anything about him openly. They were afraid of the leaders.
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
14Jesus did nothing until halfway through the feast. Then he went up to the temple courtyard and began to teach. 15The Jews there were amazed. They asked, “How did this man learn so much without being taught?”
16Jesus answered, “What I teach is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. 17Here is how someone can find out whether my teaching comes from God or from me. That person must choose to do what God wants them to do. 18Whoever speaks on their own does it to get personal honor. But someone who works for the honor of the one who sent him is truthful. Nothing about him is false. 19Didn’t Moses give you the law? But not one of you obeys the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
20“You are controlled by demons,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
21Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22Moses gave you circumcision, and so you circumcise a child on the Sabbath day. But circumcision did not really come from Moses. It came from Abraham. 23You circumcise a boy on the Sabbath day. You think that if you do, you won’t break the law of Moses. Then why are you angry with me? I healed a man’s entire body on the Sabbath day! 24Stop judging only by what you see. Judge in the right way.”
People Don’t Agree About Who Jesus Is
25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began asking questions. They said, “Isn’t this the man some people are trying to kill? 26Here he is! He is speaking openly. They aren’t saying a word to him. Have the authorities really decided that he is the Messiah? 27But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
28Jesus was still teaching in the temple courtyard. He cried out, “Yes, you know me. And you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority. The one who sent me is true. You do not know him. 29But I know him. I am from him, and he sent me.”
30When he said this, they tried to arrest him. But no one laid a hand on him. The time for him to show who he really was had not yet come. 31Still, many people in the crowd believed in him. They said, “How will it be when the Messiah comes? Will he do more signs than this man?”
32The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering things like this about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
33Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time. Then I will go to the one who sent me. 34You will look for me, but you won’t find me. You can’t come where I am going.”
35The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man plan to go? Does he think we can’t find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks? Will he go there to teach the Greeks? 36What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me’? And what did he mean when he said, ‘You can’t come where I am going’?”
37It was the last and most important day of the feast. Jesus stood up and spoke in a loud voice. He said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38Does anyone believe in me? Then, just as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from inside them.” 39When he said this, he meant the Holy Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit later. Up to that time, the Spirit had not been given. This was because Jesus had not yet received glory.
40The people heard his words. Some of them said, “This man must be the Prophet we’ve been expecting.”
41Others said, “He is the Messiah.”
Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee? 42Doesn’t Scripture say that the Messiah will come from the family line of David? Doesn’t it say that he will come from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?” 43So the people did not agree about who Jesus was. 44Some wanted to arrest him. But no one laid a hand on him.
The Jewish Leaders Do Not Believe
45Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees. They asked the guards, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46“No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.
47“You mean he has fooled you also?” the Pharisees asked. 48“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him? 49No! But this mob knows nothing about the law. There is a curse on them.”
50Then Nicodemus, a Pharisee, spoke. He was the one who had gone to Jesus earlier. He asked, 51“Does our law find a man guilty without hearing him first? Doesn’t it want to find out what he is doing?”
52They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Look into it. You will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”
53Then they all went home.
耶稣的弟弟不信祂
1之后，耶稣周游加利利，不愿去犹太地区，因为犹太人想要杀祂。 2犹太人的住棚节快到了， 3耶稣的弟弟们对祂说：“离开这里，去犹太过节吧，好让你的门徒在那里也看见你所做的啊！ 4因为人想出名，都不会暗地里行事，你既然可以做这些事，就把自己显给世人看吧！” 5原来连祂的弟弟们也不信祂。
6耶稣对他们说：“我的时候还没有到，你们什么时候都很方便。 7世人不会恨你们，只会恨我，因为我指证他们行为邪恶。 8你们先去过节吧，我现在还不上去，因为我的时候还没有到。” 9耶稣说完这些话，仍留在加利利。
耶稣过住棚节
10他们走了以后，耶稣避开了人们的注意，暗地里上去过节。 11节期到了，犹太人到处查问：“耶稣在哪里？”
12众人对祂议论纷纷，有些人说：“祂是好人，”有些说：“不，祂欺骗民众。” 13不过，没有人敢公开议论祂的事，因为害怕犹太人。
14节期约过了一半，耶稣来到圣殿教导人。 15犹太人感到惊奇，说：“这个人没有受过教育，怎么懂得这么多呢？”
16耶稣说：“我的教导不是出于我自己，而是出于差我来的那位。 17如果你们愿意遵行上帝的旨意，就能分辨这些教导是出于上帝，还是出于我自己。 18凭自己讲论的人是要寻求自己的荣耀，但人子真实无伪，毫无不义，祂是为了使差祂来的那位得荣耀。 19摩西不是把律法传给了你们吗？你们却没有一个人遵守。为什么想要杀我呢？”
20众人回答说：“你一定是被鬼附身了！谁要杀你啊？”
21耶稣说：“我行了一件神迹，你们都感到惊奇。 22摩西把割礼传给你们，你们也在安息日行割礼。其实割礼不是摩西定的，而是从祖先们的时代就有了。 23为了避免违背摩西的律法，行割礼的那一天就算是安息日，你们还是照行。那么，我在安息日使一个病人完全康复，你们为什么责怪我呢？ 24不要根据外表来断定是非，要按公义的原则判断。”
耶稣是基督吗
25有些住在耶路撒冷的人说：“这不是他们要杀的那个人吗？ 26你看祂这样公开讲道，居然没有人说什么，难道官长也真的认为祂是基督吗？ 27可是基督来的时候，根本没有人知道祂从哪里来，我们却知道这个人是从哪里来的。”
28于是，耶稣在圣殿里高声教导人说：“你们知道我是谁，也知道我是从哪里来的。其实我来不是出于自己的意思，差我来的那位是真实的，你们不认识祂。 29但我认识祂，因为我是从祂那里来的，差我来的就是祂。” 30他们听了，想捉拿耶稣，只是没有人下手，因为祂的时候还没有到。
31人群中有许多人信了耶稣，他们说：“基督来的时候所行的神迹，难道会比这个人行得更多吗？”
32法利赛人听见众人这样议论耶稣，就联合祭司长派差役去抓祂。 33耶稣对众人说：“我暂时还会跟你们在一起，不久我要回到差我来的那位那里。 34那时你们要找我却找不到，你们也不能去我所在的地方。”
35犹太人彼此议论说：“祂要去哪里使我们找不着呢？难道祂要到我们犹太人侨居的希腊各地去教导希腊人吗？ 36祂说我们找不到祂，又不能去祂所在的地方，是什么意思？”
活水的江河
37节期最后一天，也是整个节期的高潮，耶稣站起来高声说：“人若渴了，可以到我这里来喝。 38正如圣经所言，信我的人，‘从他里面要流出活水的江河来’。” 39耶稣这话是指信祂的人要得到圣灵，但当时圣灵还没有降临，因为耶稣还没有得到荣耀。
40听见这些话后，有些人说：“祂真是那位先知。” 41也有些人说：“祂是基督。”还有些人说：“不会吧，基督怎么会出自加利利呢？ 42圣经上不是说基督是大卫的后裔，要降生在大卫的故乡伯利恒吗？” 43众人因为对耶稣的看法不同，就起了纷争。 44有些人想抓祂，只是没有人下手。
犹太官长不信耶稣
45祭司长和法利赛人看见差役空手回来，就问：“你们为什么不把祂带来呢？”
46差役答道：“从未有人像祂那样说话！”
47法利赛人说：“难道你们也被祂迷惑了吗？ 48哪有官长和法利赛人信祂呢？ 49这群不明白律法的民众该受咒诅！”
50曾经夜访耶稣、属于他们当中一员的尼哥德慕说： 51“难道不听被告申辩，不查明事实真相，我们的律法就定祂的罪吗？”
52他们回答说：“难道你也是加利利人吗？你去查查看，就会知道没有先知是从加利利来的。”
