Good to have you here ... During the
time when the Jewish people sought to kill Jesus, He spent time in
Galilee, the northern part of Israel. Jerusalem is in Judea, which
is the southern region of Israel. Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles
was nearing, so Jesus’ brothers said to Him, Leave here and go into
Judea, so your disciples can also see the works that you do, because
there is no man that does anything in secret, and he himself seeks
to be known openly. If you do these works, show yourself to the
world.
Did you catch that? We see as we travel along in our Biblical Brotherly Love Bible study that even Jesus’ own brothers didn’t believe in Him and they were mocking Him. Is that Brotherly Love? Well, as Jesus said before, a
prophet has no honor in his home country.
Then Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come: but your time is
always ready.
Pay attention to this Love Your Brother Bible verse ... The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it,
that the works of it are evil. You go to this feast. I won’t go yet,
because my time has not yet arrived. So Jesus remained in Galilee,
but when his brothers had gone, then He also went to the feast, not
openly, but in secret.
Then the Jews looked for Him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
There was much murmuring among the people concerning Him. Some said,
He is a good man: others said, No, He deceives the people. However,
nobody spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.
Wow, let's take a Biblical Brotherly Love Bible study pit stop. Where is the Love Your Brother Bible Godly way they had been taught? Okay, let's continue.
Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the Temple, and
taught. And the Jews were in awe, saying, How does this man know how
to teach, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My
doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me. If any man will do His
will, He will know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether
I speak of myself. He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory:
but he that seeks His glory that sent Him, he is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him. Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet
none of you keeps the law?
Why do you go about to kill me? The people answered, You have a devil,
who goes about to kill you? Jesus answered, I have done one work,
and you all marvel. Moses gave to you circumcision; (not because it
is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and you on the Sabbath day
circumcise a man. If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision,
that the law of Moses should not be broken; are you angry at me,
because I have made a man healed on the Sabbath day? Judge not
according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Still no Biblical Brotherly Love Bible compassion ...
Then some of them of Jerusalem said, Isn’t this He, whom they seek to
kill? But look, He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. Do
the rulers know for a fact that this is the very Christ? We know
where this man is from, but when Christ comes, no man will know
where He came from.
Hear Jesus' anguish in this failure to Love Your Brother Bible verse:
Then Jesus cried in the Temple as He taught, saying, You both know me,
and you know where I’m from, and I have not come of my own will, but
He that sent me is true, whom you know not. But I know Him, for I am
from Him, and He has sent me.
Then they sought to take Him: but no man laid hands on Him, because
His hour had not yet come. Many of the people believed in Him, and
said, When Christ comes, will He do more miracles than these which
this man has done?
The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning
Him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take
Him. Then Jesus said to them, For yet a little while I will be with
you, and then I go to Him that sent me.
You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there you
cannot come.
The Jews said among themselves, Where will He go, that we shall not
find Him? Will he go to the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach
the Gentiles? What kind of talk is this that He said, You shall seek
me, and shall not find me, and where I am, there you cannot come?
Whew ... No Biblical Brotherly Love so far. Let's continue seeking any Love Your Brother Bible verse within this part of Jesus' Ministry ... In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried
saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink. He that
believes in me, as the scripture (