English Standard Version

John 7:4-15 English Standard Version (ESV)

4. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

5. For not even his brothers believed in him.

6. Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

7. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

8. You go up to the feast. I am notgoing up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”

9. After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

10. But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.

11. The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”

12. And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”

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

14. About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.

15. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”