6. So Jesus said to them, “My time is not yet here, but the time is always right for you.
7. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify to it that its works are evil.
8. You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time has not yet been fulfilled.”
9. After he had said this, he stayed on in Galilee.
10. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but [as it were] in secret.
11. The Jews were looking for him at the feast and saying, “Where is he?”
12. And there was considerable murmuring about him in the crowds. Some said, “He is a good man,” [while] others said, “No; on the contrary, he misleads the crowd.”
13. Still, no one spoke openly about him because they were afraid of the Jews.
14. When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple area and began to teach.
15. The Jews were amazed and said, “How does he know scripture without having studied?”
16. Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me.
17. Whoever chooses to do his will shall know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.
18. Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him.
19. Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
20. The crowd answered, “You are possessed! Who is trying to kill you?”
21. Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work and all of you are amazed
22. because of it. Moses gave you circumcision—not that it came from Moses but rather from the patriarchs—and you circumcise a man on the sabbath.
23. If a man can receive circumcision on a sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole person well on a sabbath?
24. Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly.”
25. So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?