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Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
John 7:14 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
  • KJV Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
  • BSB About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
  • NASB But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple area, and began to teach.
  • NLT Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.

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Quick answer

Midway through the feast, Jesus entered the temple and began to teach. He steps publicly into the center of religious life to proclaim His message.

Overview

After arriving quietly, Jesus now teaches openly in the temple courts, the heart of Jewish worship. His public teaching at the feast displays His courage and His authority as the one greater than the temple. This sets up the marveling and questioning that follow, as the crowds confront the source and nature of His teaching.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • John 7:28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
  • Luke 19:47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
  • John 8:2Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.
  • Hag 2:7–9and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
  • John 18:20Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
  • Mal 3:1“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
  • John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
  • John 7:2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
  • Num 29:12–13“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.
  • John 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
  • Matt 26:55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.
  • Num 29:17“‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  • Matt 21:12Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
  • Num 29:23–40“‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  • Num 29:20“‘On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

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