13. But no one dared speak out boldly about Him for fear of [the leaders of] the Jews.
14. When the Feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple [court] and began to teach.
15. The Jews were astonished. They said, How is it that this Man has learning [is so versed in the sacred Scriptures and in theology] when He has never studied?
16. Jesus answered them by saying, My teaching is not My own, but His Who sent Me.
17. If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure), he will know (have the needed illumination to recognize, and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking from Myself and of My own accord and on My own authority.
18. He who speaks on his own authority seeks to win honor for himself. [He whose teaching originates with himself seeks his own glory.] But He Who seeks the glory and is eager for the honor of Him Who sent Him, He is true; and there is no unrighteousness or falsehood or deception in Him.
19. Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. [If that is the truth] why do you seek to kill Me [for not keeping it]?
20. The crowd answered Him, You are possessed by a demon! [You are raving!] Who seeks to kill You?
21. Jesus answered them, I did one work, and you all are astounded. [John 5:1-9.]
22. Now Moses established circumcision among you–though it did not originate with Moses but with the previous patriarchs–and you circumcise a person [even] on the Sabbath day.
23. If, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, a person undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath day, have you any cause to be angry with (indignant with, bitter against) Me for making a man's whole body well on the Sabbath?
24. Be honest in your judgment and do not decide at a glance (superficially and by appearances); but judge fairly and righteously.
25. Then some of the Jerusalem people said, Is not this the Man they seek to kill?