John 7:1-2,10,25-30 NRSVue

¹After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. ²Now the Jewish Festival of Booths was near.

¹⁰But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but, as it were, in secret.

²⁵Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? ²⁶And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? ²⁷Yet we know where this man is from, but when the Messiah comes no one will know where he is from.” ²⁸Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. ²⁹I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.” ³⁰Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour had not yet come.

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