In those days,
Jesus was travelling through Galilee:
he did not want to travel through Judea
because the Jews were trying to kill him.
The Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.
When his brothers had gone up to Jerusalem
for the party,
he went up too,
not ostensibly, but in secret.
We were already in the middle of party week
when Jesus went up to the Temple and taught there.
Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said:
"Isn't he the one they want to kill?
Here he is, speaking openly,
and nobody tells him anything!
Would our leaders really have recognised
that he is the Christ?
But we know where he's from.
But Christ, when he comes,
no one will know where he's from."
Jesus, who was teaching in the Temple, cried out:
"Do you know me?
And do you know where I'm from?
I didn't come here on my own:
but He who sent me is true,
you don't know.
I know him
because I come from him,
and he sent me."
We tried to stop him,
but nobody laid a hand on him
because his time had not yet come.
Jn 7, 1-2.10.14.25-30
