John - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1026

JOHN ._ 7-5 7-sv For even His brothers did not believe in Him. IO II I2 :6 jesus, therefore, answered them: ‘My opportunity has not yet ar—

rived ; but your opportunity is always at hand. The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me, because I give evi- dence against it, that its doings are wicked, You yourselves can go up to the festival; I am not going up yet to this festival, because My time is not yet fulfilled. And, having told them this , He stayed in Galilee. @i¤c¤ursz¤ at the §Fz¤zi nf ®eh21·nar12¤. When His brothers had gone up to

the festival, however, He also went up Himse1f—not publicly, but quietly-. The judeans were, however, search-

ing for Him at the festival, and kept Where is I-Ie?’ And there was much muttering

among the crowds respecting Him. He is a bene· ; while others exclaimed, ‘Not He! on the contrary, He de· None, how- ever, spoke openly about Him, for fear of the judeans. When, however, the festival was

half over, jesus went up to the temple, and began teaching. The judeans then, in their astonishment, exclaimed 2 ‘ How can this fellow know the0· logy, having never studied ? ’ ]esus, in reply to them, said: ‘ My teaching is not My own, but

that of My Sender. If any one de- sires to conform to His purpose, he will recognise the doctrine, whether it originates from God, or whether I speak from Myself. The man who speaks from himself studies his own reputation ; but the One Whose aim is to honour His Sender, He is true, and there is no falsehood in Him.

19 Has not Moses given you the law? yet none of you observe the law! Why do you aim at murdering You have a demon. Who wants to murder You ?'

I have done one thing/’ said and you were all astonished. Moses instituted the circumcision among you for a purpose (not, how- ever, that it originated with Moses, then, a man is circumcised on a Sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be disregarded, why are you furious against Me because I have restored a grown man to perfect health on a Sabbath ? Do not decide ata glance, but think out the decision judicially) Some of those of jerusalem then re- marked: ‘Is not this the Man Whom they

wish to murder? Yet here He is speaking in public, and they say nothing to Him! Perhaps, however, the authorities have come to recog- nise the fact that this Man is the We know where this

fellow comes from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know from where He comes.’ jesus therefore shouted, when teaching in the temple, saying: ‘You both know Me, and know

from where I come ; and that I have not come from Myself. But My Sender is true, Whom you do not know. I know Him ; because I am from Him, and He Himself sent Me} They therefore sought to arrest

Him ; yet none laid hands upon Him, because His time had not arrived. Among the crowd, however, many be- lieved in Him, and said: ‘When the Messiah does come,

will He produce more proofs than this Man has done? ’ 3x: Qttzinpt in Arrest yarns.

The Pharisees heard the crowd 26 28 30 muttering about Him in this way; and the chief priests and the Phari· sees despatched officers to arrest Him. For alittle 33 time, I am still with you, then I go to ., Him Who sent Me. You will search 34 for Me, and fail to find Me; and where I am you are unable to come} The judeans, therefore, remarked to 35 Where will this fellow go, that we cannot find Him? Surely He will not go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks ? What is the Man’s meaning, when He says: ‘ You will search for Me, and fail to find Me ? and where I am, you are not able to come? ’ Now on the closing day, the great

day of the festival, jesus stood up, but with your ancestors) ; and you j and called aloud, exclairning: lf any man is thirsty, let him come ro26 37