John 7
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John 7:14-28

14About halfway through the Feast, Yeshua went up to the Temple and began teaching.

15Then the Judean leaders were amazed, saying, “How does this man know so much, having never been taught?”

16Yeshua answered, “My teaching is not from Me, but from Him who sent Me.

17If anyone wants to do His will, he will know whether My teaching comes from God or it is Myself speaking.

18Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

19Hasn’t Moses given you the Torah? Yet none of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

20The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who’s trying to kill you?”

21Yeshua answered, “I did one good work, and all of you are amazed.

22Because Moses has given you circumcision (though it is not from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a man on Shabbat.

23If a man receives circumcision on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry that I healed a man’s whole body on Shabbat?

24Do not judge by appearance, but judge righteously.”

25Then some of the people from Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the person they’re trying to kill?

26Look, He speaks openly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be that the leaders know He is the Messiah?

27But we know where this person is from. But the Messiah, whenever He may come, no one knows where He is from.”

28Then, while teaching in the Temple courts, Yeshua cried out, “You know both who I am and where I am from! I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,

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