⁵⁹ He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Jesus Teaches at the Festival

¹⁴ Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.^(A)

²⁶ Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities^(A) really concluded that he is the Messiah?^(B)

¹⁶ “Come near^(A) me and listen^(B) to this:

⁵⁵ In that hour Jesus said to the crowd, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching,^(A) and you did not arrest me.

²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”^(A)

⁴⁷ Every day he was teaching at the temple.^(A) But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.^(B)

⁵³ Every day I was with you in the temple courts,^(A) and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour^(B)—when darkness reigns.”^(C)