John 7:7-20

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

8Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.”

9After he had said these things, he stayed in Galilee.

10After his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly but secretly.

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

12And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.”

13Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

14When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach.

15Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned, since he hasn’t been trained?”

16Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.

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

18The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

19Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

20“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you?”