John 7:5-15

5 (For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles

6 So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed.

9 And [when he] had said these [things], he remained in Galilee.

10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

11 So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"

12 And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

13 However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

14 {Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

15 Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

Footnotes

• [a] Most manuscripts read "not yet" here, but this is obviously an easier reading intended to reconcile the statement with Jesus' later actions
• [b] Or "fulfilled"
• [c] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal
• [d] Literally "now it being already in the middle of the feast"
• [e] *Here "[courts]" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
• [f] *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to teach")
• [g] Literally "know letters"
• [h] *Here "[because]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("been taught") which is understood as causal