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John 7:1-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. Then, after these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee. For he was not willing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

2. Now the feast day of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.

3. And his brothers said to him: "Move away from here and go into Judea, so that your disciples there may also see your works that you do.

4. Of course, no one does anything in secret, but he himself seeks to be in the public view. Since you do these things, manifest yourself to the world."

5. For neither did his brothers believe in him.

6. Therefore, Jesus said to them: "My time has not yet come; but your time is always at hand.

7. The world cannot hate you. But it hates me, because I offer testimony about it, that its works are evil.

8. You may go up to this feast day. But I am not going up to this feast day, because my time has not yet been fulfilled."

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

10. But after his brothers went up, then he also went up to the feast day, not openly, but as if in secret.

11. Therefore, the Jews were seeking him on the feast day, and they were saying, "Where is he?"

12. And there was much murmuring in the crowd concerning him. For certain ones were saying, "He is good." But others were saying, "No, for he seduces the crowds."

13. Yet no one was speaking openly about him, out of fear of the Jews.

14. Then, about the middle of the feast, Jesus ascended into the temple, and he was teaching.

15. And the Jews wondered, saying: "How does this one know letters, though he has not been taught?"

16. Jesus responded to them and said: "My doctrine is not of me, but of him who sent me.