So when he had said this to them he continued

still in Galilee.

But when his brothers had gone

up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, So the Jews kept looking

but as it were in secret.

for him at the feast.

"Where is he?" they said.

There was a great deal of discussion among the people about him.

"He is a good man," some said.

"No," said others, "he is leading the people astray."

And yet no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews.

About the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.

"How does this man know letters when he has never learned?" said the Jews as they kept wondering at him.

"My teaching is not "but his who sent me. his will he will learn to

mine," Jesus answered,

If any one wants to do know about the teaching

whether it is from God or whether I am talking on

my own authority. thority is seeking his seeking the honor of no evil is in him.

He who talks on his own au-. own honor. But he who is him who sent him is true and Did not Moses give you the

Law?

And yet not one of you is keeping it. Why are you trying to kill me?"

"You are possessed by a demon.

ing to kill you?"

Who is try

"I have done one work and you are all wondering. For this reason Moses has given you circumcision, not because it is from Moses but from the Fathers, and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man. If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry at me because I have completely cured a man on the Sabbath? Do not judge according to appearance. Judge truly." "Is not this he whom they are trying to kill ?" said some of those of Jerusalem. "But he is talking boldly and they say nothing to him. Surely the rulers have not got to know that this is the Christ? Yet we know where this man comes

from.

But when the Christ comes no one knows where he comes from."

"You both know me," cried Jesus in the Temple as he was teaching, "and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own authority. - But he who sent me is true and you do not know him. But I know him. For I am from him and he has sent me.

So they kept trying to arrest him.

But no one

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laid hands on him because his time had not yet

come.

"When the Christ comes,'

said many of the

people who believed in Jesus, "will he do more signs than this man has done?"

The Pharisees heard the people were murmuring such things about Jesus, so they and the Chief Priests sent officers to take him.

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I am still with you a little while," said Jesus, "and then I am going to him who sent me.

You will seek me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

"Where will he go that we shall not find him? said the Jews to each other. "Will he go to the dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What kind of a saying is this he said, You will seek me but will not find me. And where I am

you cannot come."

"If any one is thirsty," Jesus was standing and crying in the last day, the great day of the feast, "let him come to me and drink. He who keeps believing in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water shall flow from him." But he said this about the Spirit whom they who believed in him were to receive. For the Spirit was not yetgiven because Jesus was not yet glorified.

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'Surely this is the Prophet," some of the people said when they heard this.

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"This is the Christ," said others.

"What?" still others said. "Does the Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said the Christ comes from the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?"

So there was a division among the people because of him, and some of them wanted to arrest him. But no one laid hands on him.

So the officers came to the Chief Priests and Pharisees.

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'Why have you not brought him?" they asked. "No one has ever yet spoken like this man,' they said.

"What! have you also been led astray? Surely none of the rulers or Pharisees have believed in him? But this throng which does not get to know the law is cursed."

"Our law does not judge the man before it hears from him and gets to know what he is doing, does it?" said Nicodemus.

For he who once came to Jesus by night was one of them.

"Are you also of Galilee? Search and see that out of Galilee rises no Prophet."

"I am the light of the world," said Jesus again to them. "He who keeps following me shall not go about in darkness but shall have the light of life."

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"You are bearing witness about yourself," said the Pharisees. "Your witness is not true."

"Though I am bearing witness about myself, my witness is true. For I know where I came from and where I am going. But you cannot tell where I came from and where I am going. You are judging by appearances. I am not judging any one. Yet if I judge my judgment is true. For I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. It is also written in your law that the witness of two men is true. I am my own witness and the Father who sent me is bearing witness about me." "Where is your father?"

"You neither know me nor my Father.

knew me you would know my Father also."

If you

Jesus said this in the Treasury as he was teaching in the Temple. No one laid hands on him, for his time had not yet come.

"Will he kill himself?" said the Jews. says, where I am going you cannot come."

"You are from beneath," said Jesus.

"For he

"I am

from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. So I said: You will die in your sins. For if you do not believe I am he you will

die in your sins."

"Who are you?"

"Why do you ask the very thing I have been

talking about to you all along? I have many