After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.
Now the Jewish Festival of Booths was near.
So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing,
for no one who wants to be widely known acts in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
Go to the festival yourselves. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.”
After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
But after his brothers had gone to the festival, he also went—not publicly but in secret.
The Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking, “Where is he?”
There was considerable whispering about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is a good man.”
Others replied, “No, he is deceiving the crowd.”
Yet no one would speak openly about him for fear of the leaders.
Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.
The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How does this man have such learning, when he has never been taught?”
Jesus answered, “My teaching is not mine. It comes from the one who sent me.
Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
Whoever speaks on their own seeks their own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is nothing false about him.
“Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?”
The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”
Jesus answered them, “I performed one work, and all of you are astonished.
My Father is still working, and I also am working.”
For this reason they tried all the more to kill him: not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing;
for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be astonished.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
Moreover, the Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,
so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
Very truly I tell you, anyone who keeps my word will never see death.”
Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Is this not the one they are trying to kill? But here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him.
Surely the authorities know that this is the Messiah. When he comes, no one will know where he is from.”
So Jesus asked them, “You know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you don’t know him.
I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
They tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him because his time had not yet come.
Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?”
Objection 1. It would seem that in Christ there was no empiric and acquired knowledge. For whatever befitted Christ, He had most perfectly. Now Christ did not possess acquired knowledge most perfectly, since He did not devote Himself to the study of letters, by which knowledge is acquired in its perfection; for it is said (John 7:15): "The Jews wondered, saying: How doth this Man know letters, having never learned?" Therefore it seems that in Christ there was no acquired knowledge. Reply to Objection 1. Since there is a twofold way of acquiring knowledge—by discovery and by being taught—the way of discovery is the higher, and the way of being taught is secondary. Hence it is said (Ethic. i, 4): "He indeed is the best who knows everything by himself: yet he is good who obeys him that speaks aright." And hence it was more fitting for Christ to possess a knowledge acquired by discovery than by being taught, especially since He was given to be the Teacher of all, according to Joel 2:23: "Be joyful in the Lord your God, because He hath given you a Teacher of justice."
