Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles
1After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want7:1 Some manuscripts not have authority to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. 2But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, 3Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. 4No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
6Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. 7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. 8You go to the festival. I am not7:8 Some manuscripts not yet going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.” 9After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.
10However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. 11Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”
12Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”
Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.” 13But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.
Jesus Teaches at the Festival
14Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. 15The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”
16Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. 17Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
20“You are demon-possessed,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”
21Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 23Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? 24Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”
Division Over Who Jesus Is
25At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded 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.”
28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
30At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?”
32The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things 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, and then I am going to the one who sent me. 34You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
35The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
37On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”7:37,38 Or me. And let anyone drink 38 who believes in me.” As Scripture has said, “Out of him (or them) will flow rivers of living water.” 39By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40On hearing his words, some of the people said, “Surely this man is the Prophet.”
41Others said, “He is the Messiah.”
Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee? 42Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?” 43Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. 44Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
45Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “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 deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted. 48“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”
50Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, 51“Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
52They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”
[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53—8:11. A few manuscripts include these verses, wholly or in part, after John 7:36, John 21:25, Luke 21:38 or Luke 24:53.]
53Then they all went home,
Isus i njegova braća
1Nakon toga je Isus obilazio Galileju. Htio je izbjegnuti Judeju, gdje su ga židovski vođe kanili ubiti. 2Približavao se Blagdan sjenica, jedan od židovskih godišnjih blagdana, 3pa su ga njegova braća nagovarala da ode u Judeju na svetkovinu. “Otiđi odavde u Judeju, tako da tvoji učenici mogu vidjeti čudesa koja činiš”, rekoše mu. 4“Ne možeš postati slavnim kad se ovako skrivaš. Ako si tako velik, dokaži to svijetu!” 5Jer mu ni njegova braća nisu vjerovala.
6“Moje vrijeme još nije došlo,” odgovori im Isus, “ali vi možete otići kad god zaželite jer je za vas vrijeme uvijek pogodno. 7Svijet vas ne mrzi, ali mene mrzi jer svjedočim o njemu da su mu djela zla. 8Samo vi idite, a ja ću doći poslije jer se još nije ispunilo moje vrijeme.” 9Tako im reče i ostane u Galileji.
Isus javno poučava u Hramu
10Ali pošto su njegova braća otišla na proslavu, pođe i on, samo kradomice. 11Židovski vjerski vođe pokušali su ga pronaći na svetkovini i neprestano su zapitkivali je li ga tko vidio. 12O njemu se u narodu mnogo raspravljalo. Jedni su govorili: “On je divan!” dok su drugi tvrdili: “Nije; obmanjuje narod!” 13Ali nitko ga se nije usudio javno zagovarati jer su se ljudi bojali židovskih vjerskih vođa.
14A Isus usred svetkovine ode u Hram i počne javno propovijedati. 15Kad su ga čuli, židovski se vođe iznenade. “Kako on tako dobro poznaje Sveto pismo, a nikada nije pohađao naše škole?” pitali su se.
16Nato im Isus reče: “Moja pouka nije od mene, nego od onoga koji me je poslao. 17Želi li tko činiti njegovu volju, znat će je li moje učenje od Boga ili govorim sam od sebe. 18Tko iznosi vlastite zamisli, traži slavu za sebe, ali tko želi iskazati čast onome koji ga je poslao, taj je istinit i u njemu nema nepravednosti. 19Nije li vam Mojsije dao Zakon? Pa ipak nitko se od vas ne drži Zakona! Štoviše, pokušavate me ubiti!”
20“Opsjeo te zloduh!” odgovori mu svjetina. “Tko bi te htio ubiti?”
21Isus im odvrati: “U subotu sam iscijelio čovjeka i to vas je zaprepastilo. 22Ali i vi radite subotom kad provodite Mojsijev zakon o obrezanju. Taj je običaj, zapravo, stariji od Mojsijeva zakona; on potječe od praotaca. 23Ako dakle pravi trenutak za obrezanje vaših sinova padne u subotu, obavit ćete ga da ne biste prekršili Mojsijev zakon. Zašto onda mene osuđujete što sam u subotu posve iscijelio onoga čovjeka? 24Ne sudite prema onome što vidite, već pravedno prosuđujte.”
Je li Isus Mesija
25Neki su Jeruzalemci međusobno govorili: “Nije li to onaj kojega žele ubiti? 26A evo, ovdje javno propovijeda i ništa mu ne kažu. Ne znači li to možda da su naši poglavari ipak shvatili kako je on uistinu Krist? 27Ali ipak, kako bi to bilo moguće? Jer za ovoga znamo gdje je rođen, a kad se pojavi Krist, nitko neće znati odakle dolazi.”
28Nato Isus, koji je poučavao u Hramu, poviče: “Vi me dakle poznajete i znate odakle dolazim? Nisam ja došao sâm od sebe, nego od Istinitoga koji me je poslao, i njega vi ne poznajete. 29Poznajem ga jer sam bio s njime i on me je poslao k vama.” 30Od tada su židovski poglavari vrebali da ga uhvate, ali ga ipak nitko nije ni taknuo jer još nije došlo njegovo vrijeme.
31Ipak, mnogi iz mnoštva povjerovali su u njega. “Kakva bi još čuda trebalo očekivati od Krista kad dođe a da ih ovaj već nije učinio?” govorili su.
32Kad su farizeji čuli kakvo je raspoloženje u mnoštvu, skupa sa svećeničkim poglavarima pošalju stražare da uhvate Isusa. 33Ali Isus im reče: “Još ću neko vrijeme biti ovdje s vama, a onda ću se vratiti onome koji me je poslao. 34Tražit ćete me, ali me nećete naći, i nećete moći onamo gdje ću ja biti.”
35Ta je izjava zbunila židovske vođe. “Kamo ovaj kani otići a da mi onamo ne možemo?” pitali su se. “Možda misli otići iz zemlje među rasijane Židove i poučavati Grke? 36Na što misli kad kaže da ćemo ga tražiti, a da ga nećemo naći i: ‘Nećete moći onamo gdje ću ja biti’?”
Isus obećava živu vodu
37Na posljednji, veliki dan blagdana Isus poviče mnoštvu: “Ako je tko žedan, neka dođe k meni i neka pije! 38Jer Sveto pismo kaže da će iz nutrine svakoga tko u mene vjeruje poteći rijeke žive vode.” 39Govorio je o Svetom Duhu koji će biti dan svima koji vjeruju u njega. Ali Sveti Duh još nije bio dan jer se Isus još nije vratio u svoju slavu.
Podjela i nevjera
40Kad je mnoštvo to čulo, neki su kazali: “Ovaj je čovjek sigurno Prorok.”7:40 Vidjeti: Ponovljeni zakon 18:15, 18. 41Drugi su rekli: “On je zaista Krist!” A bilo ih je koji su mislili: “Ne, on ne može biti Krist! Zar će Krist doći iz Galileje? 42Ne kaže li Sveto pismo da će se Krist roditi od kraljevske Davidove loze, u Betlehemu, gdje se i David rodio?”7:42 Vidjeti: Mihej 5:1. 43Tako u mnoštvu zbog njega nasta podjela. 44Neki su ga pokušali uhvatiti, ali ga nitko nije ni dirnuo.
45Stražari iz Hrama, poslani da ga uhvate, vrate se svećeničkim poglavarima i farizejima, a oni ih upitaju: “Zašto ga niste doveli?”
46“Još nitko nikada nije govorio kao taj čovjek”, odgovore im oni.
47“Pa nije valjda i vas zaveo?” okome se na njih farizeji. 48“Je li itko od nas židovskih poglavara ili farizeja povjerovao da je on Krist? 49Ali vjeruje mu glupa svjetina koja ne poznaje Zakon. Oni su ionako prokleti!”
50Tada progovori Nikodem, židovski vođa koji je jednom došao Isusu na razgovor: 51“Zar naš Zakon sudi čovjeku prije nego što se sasluša i ne ustanovi što je učinio?” upita on.
52“Zar si i ti bijedni Galilejac? Pogledaj u Sveto pismo i sam se uvjeri da iz Galileje ne dolazi nikakav prorok!” odgovore mu.
53Sastanak je tada prekinut i svi su se razišli domovima.
