13. But the people were afraid of their leaders, and none of them talked in public about him.
14. When the festival was about half over, Jesus went into the temple and started teaching.
15. The leaders were surprised and said, “How does this man know so much? He has never been taught!”
16. Jesus replied:I am not teaching something that I thought up. What I teach comes from the one who sent me.
17. If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me.
18. If I wanted to bring honour to myself, I would speak for myself. But I want to honour the one who sent me. That is why I tell the truth and not a lie.
19. Didn't Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you obey it! So why do you want to kill me?
20. The crowd replied, “You're mad! What makes you think someone wants to kill you?”
21. Jesus answered:I performed one miracle, and it amazed you.
22. Moses commanded you to circumcise your sons. But it wasn't really Moses who gave you this command. It was your ancestors, and even on the Sabbath you circumcise your sons
23. in order to obey the Law of Moses. Why are you angry with me for making someone completely well on the Sabbath?
24. Don't judge by appearances. Judge by what is right.
25. Some of the people from Jerusalem were saying, “Isn't this the man they want to kill?
26. Yet here he is, speaking for everyone to hear. And no one is arguing with him. Do you suppose the authorities know that he is the Messiah?
27. But how could that be? No one knows where the Messiah will come from, but we know where this man comes from.”
28. As Jesus was teaching in the temple, he shouted, “Do you really think you know me and where I came from? I didn't come on my own! The one who sent me is truthful, and you don't know him.
29. But I know the one who sent me, because I came from him.”
30. Some of the people wanted to arrest Jesus there and then. But no one even laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.