John 7:14-28

14When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

15Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”

16So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

17If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

18The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

19Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

20The crowd answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”

21Jesus replied, “I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

22However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

23But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

24Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”

25Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

26Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

27But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

28Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,