1. After this, Jesus travelled in Galilee; he did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities there were wanting to kill him.
2. The time for the Festival of Shelters was near,
3. so Jesus' brothers said to him, “Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your followers will see the things that you are doing.
4. No one hides what he is doing if he wants to be well known. Since you are doing these things, let the whole world know about you!”
5. (Not even his brothers believed in him.)
6. Jesus said to them, “The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you.
7. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.
8. You go on to the festival. I am not going to this festival, because the right time has not come for me.”
9. He said this, and then stayed on in Galilee.
10. After his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus also went; however, he did not go openly, but secretly.
11. The Jewish authorities were looking for him at the festival. “Where is he?” they asked.
12. There was much whispering about him in the crowd. “He is a good man,” some people said. “No,” others said, “he is misleading the people.”
13. But no one talked about him openly, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities.
14. The festival was nearly half over when Jesus went to the Temple and began teaching.
15. The Jewish authorities were greatly surprised and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had any training?”
16. Jesus answered, “What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God, who sent me.