John:7:1-13

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* After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee , for he did not wish to go about in Judea , because the Jews kept trying to kill him . * When the time of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near , * his brothers said to him . "Leave here and go into Judea , so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing . * "For no one ever does anything in secret if he himself seeks to be known publicly . If you are performing these signs , show yourself openly to the world ." * For even his own brothers did not believe in him . * "My time is not yet come ," said Jesus , "but your time is always at hand . * "The world cannot hate you , but me it does hate , because I am bearing testimony against it , that its ways are wicked . * Do you go up to the feast . I am not yet going up to this feast , because my time is not yet fully come ." * After saying this , he remained in Galilee ; but after his brothers had gone up to feast , * then he went too - not openly , but as it were a secret . * The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast , and saying , "Where is he ?" "I am no longer in the world , but these are in the world , and I come to thee . Holy Father , keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me , that they may be one as we are one . * and there was much disputing about him among the crowd . Some would say , "He is a good man ." Others . "No ! he is misleading the people ." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me . I guarded them , and none of them was lost except the son of perdition , that the Scripture might be fulfilled . * No one , however , was speaking openly about him , for fear of the Jews . "But now I am coming to thee , and I am speaking these things while I am in the world , so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves .

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