The Life of Jesus

It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh is no help. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life,

yet some among you do not trust.” (For Yeshua knew from the outset which ones would not trust him, also which one would betray him.)

“This,” he said, “is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has made it possible for him.”

From this time on, many of his talmidim turned back and no longer traveled around with him.

So Yeshua said to the Twelve, “Don’t you want to leave too?”

Shim‘on Kefa answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the word of eternal life.

We have trusted, and we know that you are the Holy One of God.”

Yeshua answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is an adversary.”

(He was speaking of Y’hudah Ben-Shim‘on, from K’riot; for this man — one of the Twelve! — was soon to betray him.)

After this, Yeshua traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y’hudah because the Judeans were out to kill him.

But the festival of Sukkot in Y’hudah was near;

so his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go into Y’hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;

for no one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you’re doing these things, show yourself to the world!”

(His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.)

Yeshua said to them, “My time has not yet come; but for you, any time is right.

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are.

You, go on up to the festival; as for me, I am not going up to this festival now, because the right time for me has not yet come.”

Having said this, he stayed on in the Galil.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he too went up, not publicly but in secret.

At the festival, the Judeans were looking for him. “Where is he?” they asked.

And among the crowds there was much whispering about him. Some said, “He’s a good man”; but others said, “No, he is deceiving the masses.”

However, no one spoke about him openly, for fear of the Judeans.

Not until the festival was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach.

The Judeans were surprised: “How does this man know so much without having studied?” they asked.

So Yeshua gave them an answer: “My teaching is not my own, it comes from the One who sent me.