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7:1  After this, Yeshua traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y’hudah because the Judeans were out to kill him.
7:2  But the festival of Sukkot in Y’hudah was near;
7:3  so his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go into Y’hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;
7:4  for no one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you’re doing these things, show yourself to the world!”
7:5  (His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.)
7:6  Yeshua said to them, “My time has not yet come; but for you, any time is right.
7:7  The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are.
7:8  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.”
7:9  Having said this, he stayed on in the Galil.
7:10  But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he too went up, not publicly but in secret.
7:11  At the festival, the Judeans were looking for him. “Where is he?” they asked.
7:12  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.”
7:13  However, no one spoke about him openly, for fear of the Judeans.
7:14  Not until the festival was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach.
7:15  The Judeans were surprised: “How does this man know so much without having studied?” they asked.
7:16  So Yeshua gave them an answer: “My teaching is not my own, it comes from the One who sent me.
7:17  If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or I speak on my own.
7:18  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.
7:19  Didn’t Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?”
7:20  “You have a demon!” the crowd answered. “Who’s out to kill you?”
7:21  Yeshua answered them, “I did one thing; and because of this, all of you are amazed.
7:22  Moshe gave you b’rit-milah — not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs — and you do a boy’s b’rit-milah on Shabbat.
7:23  If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man’s whole body well on Shabbat?
7:24  Stop judging by surface appearances, and judge the right way!”
7:25  Some of the Yerushalayim people said, “Isn’t this the man they’re out to kill?
7:26  Yet here he is, speaking openly; and they don’t say anything to him. It couldn’t be, could it, that the authorities have actually concluded he’s the Messiah?
7:27  Surely not — we know where this man comes from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
7:28  Whereupon Yeshua, continuing to teach in the Temple courts, cried out, “Indeed you do know me! And you know where I’m from! And I have not come on my own! The One who sent me is real. But him you don’t know!
7:29  I do know him, because I am with him, and he sent me!”
7:30  At this, they tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him; because his time had not yet come.
7:31  However, many in the crowd put their trust in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he do more miracles than this man has done?”
7:32  The P’rushim heard the crowd whispering these things about Yeshua; so the head cohanim and the P’rushim sent some of the Temple guards to arrest him.
7:33  Yeshua said, “I will be with you only a little while longer; then I will go away to the One who sent me.
7:34  You will look for me and not find me; indeed, where I am, you cannot come.”
7:35  The Judeans said to themselves, “Where is this man about to go, that we won’t find him? Does he intend to go to the Greek Diaspora and teach the Greek-speaking Jews?
7:36  And when he says, ‘You will look for me and not find me; indeed, where I am, you cannot come’ — what does he mean?”
7:37  Now on the last day of the festival, Hoshana Rabbah, Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him keep coming to me and drinking!
7:38  Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!”
7:39  (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in him were to receive later — the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet been glorified.)
7:40  On hearing his words, some people in the crowd said, “Surely this man is ‘the prophet’”;
7:41  others said, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “How can the Messiah come from the Galil?
7:42  Doesn’t the Tanakh say that the Messiah is from the seed of David and comes from Beit-Lechem, the village where David lived?”
7:43  So the people were divided because of him.
7:44  Some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.
7:45  The guards came back to the head cohanim and the P’rushim, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
7:46  The guards replied, “No one ever spoke the way this man speaks!”
7:47  “You mean you’ve been taken in as well?” the P’rushim retorted.
7:48  “Has any of the authorities trusted him? Or any of the P’rushim? No!
7:49  True, these ‘am-ha’aretz do, but they know nothing about the Torah, they are under a curse!”
7:50  Nakdimon, the man who had gone to Yeshua before and was one of them, said to them,
7:51  “Our Torah doesn’t condemn a man — does it? — until after hearing from him and finding out what he’s doing.”
7:52  They replied, “You aren’t from the Galil too, are you? Study the Tanakh, and see for yourself that no prophet comes from the Galil!”
7:53  Then they all left, each one to his own home.