7:14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts 1 and began to teach. 2 7:15 Then the Jewish leaders 3 were astonished 4 and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” 5 7:16 So Jesus replied, 6 “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 7 7:17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, 8 he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. 9 7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority 10 desires 11 to receive honor 12 for himself; the one who desires 13 the honor 14 of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, 15 and there is no unrighteousness in him. 7:19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps 16 the law! Why do you want 17 to kill me?”
7:20 The crowd 18 answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! 19 Who is trying to kill you?” 20 7:21 Jesus replied, 21 “I performed one miracle 22 and you are all amazed. 23 7:22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision 24 (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child 25 on the Sabbath. 7:23 But if a male child 26 is circumcised 27 on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, 28 why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well 29 on the Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge according to external appearance, 30 but judge with proper 31 judgment.”
7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem 32 began to say, “Isn’t this the man 33 they are trying 34 to kill? 7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, 35 and they are saying nothing to him. 36 Do the rulers really know that this man 37 is the Christ? 38 7:27 But we know where this man 39 comes from. 40 Whenever the Christ 41 comes, no one will know where he comes from.” 42
7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, 43 cried out, 44 “You both know me and know where I come from! 45 And I have not come on my own initiative, 46 but the one who sent me 47 is true. You do not know him, 48 7:29 but 49 I know him, because I have come from him 50 and he 51 sent me.”
7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, 52 but no one laid a hand on him, because his time 53 had not yet come. 7:31 Yet many of the crowd 54 believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ 55 comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” 56
7:32 The Pharisees 57 heard the crowd 58 murmuring these things about Jesus, 59 so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers 60 to arrest him. 61 7:33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, 62 and then 63 I am going to the one who sent me. 7:34 You will look for me 64 but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”
7:35 Then the Jewish leaders 65 said to one another, “Where is he 66 going to go that we cannot find him? 67 He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed 68 among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? 69 7:36 What did he mean by saying, 70 ‘You will look for me 71 but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”