Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he
would not do so in Judaea, because the Jews
were eager to put him to death.
2 When the
Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
3 his brothers said to
him:
“Leave this part of the country, and go into Judaea, so
that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you
are doing.
4 For no one does a thing privately, if he is seeking
to be widely known. Since you do these things, you should
show yourself publicly to the world.”
5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 “My time,” answered Jesus, “is not come yet, but your
time is always here.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it does
hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.
8 Go yourselves
up to the Festival; I am not going to this Festival yet, because
my time has not yet come.”
9 After telling them this, he stayed on in Galilee.
10 But, when his brothers had gone up to the Festival, Jesus
also went up—not publicly, but privately.
11 The Jews were
looking for him at the Festival and asking ‘Where is he?’;
12 and
there were many whispers about him among the people, some
saying ‘He is a good man;’ others: ‘No! he is leading
the people astray.’
13 No one, however, spoke freely about him, for fear of the Jews.
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14 About the middle of the Festival week, Jesus
went up into the Temple Courts, and began
teaching.
15 The Jews were astonished.
“How has this man got his learning,” they
asked, “when he has never studied?”
16 So, in reply, Jesus said:
17 “My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me. If
any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether
my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own
authority.
18 The man who speaks on his own authority seeks
honour for himself; but the man who seeks the honour of him
that sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.
19 Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you
obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?”
20 “You must be possessed by a demon!” the people exclaimed.
“Who is seeking to put you to death?”
21 “There was one thing I did,” replied Jesus, “at which you
are all still wondering.
22 But that is why Moses has instituted
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circumcision among you—not, indeed, that it began with him,
but with our ancestors—and that is why you circumcise
even on a Sabbath.
23 When a man receives circumcision on a
Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how
can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well
on a Sabbath?
24 Do not judge by appearances; judge justly.”
25 At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed:
“Is not this the man that they are seeking to put to death?
26 Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to
him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered
that he is the Christ?
27 Yet we know where this man
is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell
where he is from.”
28 Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts,
raised his voice and said:
“Yes; you know me, and you know where I am from. Yet
I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may
be trusted; and him you do not know.
29 I do know him, for it is
from him that I have come, and he sent me as his Messenger.”
30 So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his
time was not come yet. ⪆⪆
31 Many of the people, however,
believed in him.
“When the Christ comes,” they said, “will he give more
signs of his mission than this man has given?”
32 The Pharisees heard the people whispering about him in this
way, and so the Chief Priests and the Pharisees sent officers
to arrest him;
33 on which Jesus said:
“I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going
to him who sent me.
34 You will look for me, and you will not
find me; and you will not be able to come where I shall be.”
35 “Where is this man going,” the Jews asked one another,
“that we shall not find him? Will he go to our countrymen
abroad, and teach foreigners?
36 What does he mean by saying
‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you
will not be able to come where I shall be’?”
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37 On the last and greatest day of the Festival,
Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed:
38 “If any one thirsts, let him come to me, and drink. He
who believes in me—As Scripture says, Out of his heart
shall flow rivers of ‘Living Water.’” note
39 (By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in
him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because
Jesus had not yet been exalted.) ⪆⪆
40 Some of the people,
when they heard these words, said: note
41 “This is certainly ‘the Prophet’!”; others said: “This is
the Christ!”; but some asked: note
42 “What! does the Christ come from Galilee? Is not it said
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in Scripture that it is of the race of David, and from Bethlehem,
the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to
come?” note
43 So there was a sharp division among the people on account of
Jesus.
44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, and yet no one
touched him.
45 When the officers returned to the Chief Priests and Pharisees,
they were asked:
“Why have you not brought him?”
46 “No man ever spoke as he speaks!” they answered.
47 “What! have you been led astray too?” the Pharisees
replied.
48 “Have any of our leading men believed in him, or
any of the Pharisees?
49 As for these people who do not know
the Law—they are cursed!”
50 But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had
been to see Jesus, said to them:
51 “Does our Law pass judgement on a man without first giving
him a hearing, and finding out what he has been doing?”
52 “Are you also from Galilee?” they retorted. “Search, and
you will find that no Prophet is to arise in Galilee!”
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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