Summary: <p><strong>Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in John 7:1-24. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/john-71-24/.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><span class="text John-7-1"><span class="chapternum">1 </span>After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26319" class="text John-7-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26320" class="text John-7-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26321" class="text John-7-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26322" class="text John-7-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>For not even his brothers believed in him.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26323" class="text John-7-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Jesus said to them, <span class="woj">“My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26324" class="text John-7-7"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26325" class="text John-7-8"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>You go up to the feast. I am notgoing up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26326" class="text John-7-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>After saying this, he remained in Galilee.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-26327" class="text John-7-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26328" class="text John-7-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26329" class="text John-7-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26330" class="text John-7-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-26331" class="text John-7-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26332" class="text John-7-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26333" class="text John-7-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>So Jesus answered them, <span class="woj">“My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26334" class="text John-7-17"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26335" class="text John-7-18"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26336" class="text John-7-19"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26337" class="text John-7-20"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>The crowd answered, “You have a demo</span></p>
