John 7:1-18

1 After this, Yeshua traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y'hudah because the Judeans were out to kill him.

2 But the festival of Sukkot in Y'hudah was near;

3 so his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go into Y'hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;

4 for no one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you're doing these things, show yourself to the world!"

5 (His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.)

6 Yeshua said to them, "My time has not yet come; but for you, any time is right.

7 The world can't hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are.

8 You, go on up to the festival; as for me, I am not going up to this festival now, because the right time for me has not yet come."

9 Having said this, he stayed on in the Galil.

10 But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he too went up, not publicly but in secret.

11 At the festival, the Judeans were looking for him. "Where is he?" they asked.

12 And among the crowds there was much whispering about him. Some said, "He's a good man"; but others said, "No, he is deceiving the masses."

13 However, no one spoke about him openly, for fear of the Judeans.

14 Not until the festival was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach.

15 The Judeans were surprised: "How does this man know so much without having studied?" they asked.

16 So Yeshua gave them an answer: "My teaching is not my own, it comes from the One who sent me.

17 If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or I speak on my own.

18 A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest, there is nothing false about him.