Yeshua Rebukes His Achim (7:1-9)
7:1 After these things Yeshua (ישוע) walked in Galil: for He would not walk in Yehudim, because the Yehudim sought to kill Him.
7:2 Now the Yehudim' Chag Sukkot was at hand.
7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Yehudah, that thy talmidim also may see the works that thou doest.
7:4 For [there is] no man [that] doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to Olam Hazeh.
7:5 For neither did His brethren believe in Him.
7:6 Then Yeshua (ישוע) said unto them:
My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
7:7 Olam Hazeh cannot hate you; but Me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
7:8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for My time is not yet full come.
7:9 When He had said these words unto them, He remained [still] in Galil.
7:10 But when His brethren were gone up, then went He also up unto the Chag, not openly, but as it were in secret.
7:11 Then the Yehudim sought Him at the Chag, and said, Where is He?
7:12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning Him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but He deceiveth the people.
7:13 Howbeit no man spake openly of Him for fear of the Yehudim.
7:14 Now about the midst of the Chag Yeshua (ישוע) went up into the Beit ha Mikdash, and taught.
7:15 And the Yehudim marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
7:16 Yeshua (ישוע) answered them, and said:
My teaching is not Mine, but HIS that sent Me.
7:17 If any man will do his will, He shall know of the teaching, whether it be of Elohim (אלהים), or [whether] I speak of myself.
7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but He that seeketh His Kavod that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.
7:19 Did not Mosheh give you the Torah, and [yet] none of you keepeth the Torah? Why go ye about to kill me?
7:20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
7:21 Yeshua (ישוע) answered and said unto them:
I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
7:22 Mosheh therefore gave unto you Brit Milah; (not because it is of Mosheh, but of the fathers;) and ye on the Yom Shabbat Brit Milah (circumcise) a man.
7:23 If a man on the Yom Shabbat receive Brit Milah, that the Torah of Mosheh should not be broken; are ye angry at Me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Yom Shabbat?
7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
7:25 Then said some of them of Yerushalayim, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
7:26 But, Hinnei, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Moshiach?
7:27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Moshiach cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
7:28 Then cried Yeshua (ישוע) in the temple as he taught, saying: Ye both know Me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent Me is true, whom ye know not.
7:29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent Me.
7:30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
7:31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Moshiach cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this [man] hath done?
7:32 The Prushim heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Prushim and the Rashei Kohenim sent officers to take him.
7:33 Then said Yeshua (ישוע) unto them:
Yet a little while am I with you, and [then] I go unto him that sent Me.
7:34 Ye shall seek Me, and shall not find [me]: and where I am, [thither] ye cannot come.
7:35 Then said the Yehudim among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Goyim, and teach the Goyim?
7:36 What [manner of] saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek Me, and shall not find [me]: and where I am, [thither] ye cannot come?
(Acts 2:2-4; cp Yochanan 4:14)
7:37 In the last day, that great [day] of the Chag, Yeshua (ישוע) stood and cried, saying:
If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.
7:38 He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living mayim.
7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Ruach Ha Kodesh was not yet [given]; because that Yeshua (ישוע) was not yet glorified.)
7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is Ha Navi.
7:41 Others said, This is Ha Moshiach. But some said, Shall Moshiach come out of Galil?
7:42 Hath not the scripture said:
That Moshiach cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Beit Lechem, where David was?
7:43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
7:45 Then came the officers to the Rashei Kohenim and Prushim; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
7:46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
7:47 Then answered them the Prushim, Are ye also deceived?
7:48 Have any of the rulers or of the Prushim believed on him?
7:49 But this people who knoweth not the Torah are cursed.
7:50 Nakdimon saith unto them, (he that came to Yeshua (ישוע) by night, being one of them,)
7:51 Doth our Torah judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
7:52 They answered and said unto him,
Art thou also of Galil? Search, and look: for out of Galil ariseth no Navi.
7:53 And every man went unto his own bayit.