After these things Y'shua was walking in Galila, for he was not willing to walk in Yehuda, because the Yehudaye were seeking to kill him.

And the feast of booths of the Yehudaye was near.

And his brothers said to Y'shua: Leave here and go to Yehuda, that your disciples may see the works you do.

For there is no one who does anything in secret and wishes to be public. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.

For even his brothers did not believe in him, in Y'shua.

Y'shua said to them: My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify about it that its works are evil.

You go up to this feast; I am not going up to this feast now, because my time is not yet complete.

These things he said, and he stayed in Galila.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as in secret.

And the Yehudeans were seeking him at the feast, and they were saying, Where is he?

And there was much murmuring about him in the crowd, for there were some who were saying, He is good, and others were saying, No, but he deceives the people.

Yet no one was speaking openly about him, because of fear of the Jews.

But when the days of the feast were half over, Y'shua went up to the temple and was teaching.

And the Jews were amazed and said: How does this one know the writings, when he has not learned?

Y'shua answered and said: My teaching is not mine, but of him who sent me.

Whoever wants to do his will understands my teaching, whether it is from Elohim, or whether I speak from the desire of my own soul.

Whoever speaks from the desire of his own mind seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no injustice in his heart.

Did not Moshe give you the law? And no one of you keeps the law.

Why are you seeking to kill me? The crowd answered and said, You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?

Y'shua answered and said to them, I did one work, and all of you are amazed.

Because of this Moshe gave you circumcision—not that it is from Moshe, but it is from the fathers—and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

If a man is circumcised on the Sabbath day so that the law of Moshe may not be broken, are you murmuring at me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath day?

Do not judge by taking faces, but judge a just judgment.

And some people from Urishlim were saying, Is not this the one they seek to kill?

And look, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Do the elders know that this is truly the Mashiyach?

But we know this one, from where he is; yet the Mashiyach, when he comes, no one knows from where he is.

And Y'shua raised his voice while teaching in the temple and said, You both know me, and you know from where I am. And I have not come from my own will, but he who sent me is true. Him you do not know;

but I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.

And they sought to seize him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

And many from the crowd believed in him, and they say: When the Mashiyach comes, will he do greater signs than these that this man does?

And the Pharisees heard the crowd saying these things about him, and they and the chief priests sent officers to seize him.

And Y'shua said: A little while longer I am with you, and I go to him who sent me.

And you will seek me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.

The Yehudaye said among themselves: Where is this one about to go, that we cannot find him? Will he go to the regions of the nations and teach the pagans?

What is this word that he said: You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come?

On the great day, which is the last of the feast, Y'shua stood and cried out and said, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Everyone who believes in me, as the writings have said, rivers of living water will flow from his belly.

This he said about the Ruach which those who believe in him were about to receive, for the Ruach had not yet been given, because Y'shua was not yet glorified.

Many from the crowd who heard his words were saying, Truly this is the prophet.

Others were saying, This is the Mashiyach. Others were saying, Does the Mashiyach come from Galila?

Does not the writing say that the Mashiyach comes from the seed of Dawid, and from Beth-Lekhem the town of Dawid?

And there was a division in the crowd because of him.

And there were some of them who wanted to seize him. But no one laid hands on him.

And those guards came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and the priests said to them: Why have you not brought him?

The guards say to them: Never has a man spoken as this man speaks.

The Pharisees say to them: Have you also been led astray?

Has anyone from the leaders or from the Pharisees believed in him?

But this people who do not know the law are cursed.

Niqdemus, one of them, he who had come to Y'shua by night, said to them:

Does our law condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he has done?

They answered and said to him: Are you also from Galila? Search and see that a prophet does not arise from Galila.

So each one went to his house.¹²