¹ Koska Bileam näki kelpaavan Herralle, hän siunasi Israelia, ei mennyt hän pois, niinkuin ennen, etsimään ilmoitusta, vaan käänsi kasvonsa korpeen päin.

² Ja Bileam nosti silmänsä ja näki Israelin sioittaneen itsensä sukukuntainsa jälkeen, ja Jumalan henki tuli hänen päällensä.

³ Ja hän toi edes puheensa, ja sanoi: näitä sanoo Bileam Beorin poika, näitä sanoo se mies, jonka silmät avatut ovat.

⁴ Näitä sanoo se, joka kuulee Jumalan puheet, se, joka Kaikkivaltiaan ilmoitukset näkee, joka lankee maahan, ja hänen silmänsä avataan.

⁵ Kuinka kauniit ovat sinun majas, Jakob, ja sinun asumas, Israel?

⁶ Niinkuin ojat levitetään, niinkuin yrttitarha virran vieressä, niinkuin aloes, jonka Herra istuttaa, niinkuin sedripuu veden tykönä.

⁷ Veden pitää vuotaman hänen ämpäristänsä, ja hänen siemenensä on paljoissa vesissä. Hänen kuninkaansa pitää oleman korkiamman Agagia, ja hänen valtakuntansa pitää korotettaman.

⁸ Jumala johdatti hänen Egyptistä, hänen väkevyytensä on niinkuin yksisarvisen väkevyys: hänen pitää nielemän pakanat vihollisensa, ja heidän luunsa murentaman, ja nuolillansa ampuman lävitse.

⁹ Hän pani maata niinkuin tarkka jalopeura, ja niinkuin syömäri jalopeura: kuka tohtii herättää häntä? Siunattu olkoon se, joka sinua siunaa, kirottu olkoon se, joka sinua kiroo.

¹⁰ Silloin Balakin viha julmistui Bileamia vastaan, ja löi käsiänsä yhteen, ja sanoi hänelle: minä kutsuin sinua kiroomaan vihollisiani, ja katso, sinä jo kolmasti täydellisesti siunasit heitä.

¹¹ Pakene kohta sialles. Minä ajattelin kunnioittaa sinua suuresti, ja katso, Herra on sen kunnian estänyt sinulta.

¹² Ja Bileam puhui Balakille: enkö minä puhunut sanansaattajilles, kuin sinä lähetit minun tyköni, sanoen:

¹³ Jos Balak antais minulle huoneensa täyden hopiaa ja kultaa, en minä taida senvuoksi Herran sanaa käydä ylitse, tekemään hyvää eli pahaa minun mieleni jälkeen; vaan mitä Herra sanoo, sen pitää myös minun sanoman.

¹⁴ Ja nyt katso, koska minä menen kansani tykö, niin tule, minä neuvon sinua, mitä tämä kansa sinun kansalles tekevä on, viimeisellä ajalla.

¹⁵ Ja hän piti puheen, ja sanoi: näin sanoo Bileam Beorin poika, näin sanoo se mies, jonka silmät avatut ovat.

¹⁶ Sen sanoo se, joka kuulee Jumalan puheen, ja se, jolla Ylimmäisen tieto on, joka näkee Kaikkivaltiaan ilmestyksen, joka lankee maahan, ja hänen silmänsä avataan:

¹⁷ Minä saan nähdä hänen, mutta en nyt: minä katselen häntä, vaan en läheltä. Tähti nousee Jakobista, ja valtikka tulee Israelista, ja musertaa Moabin ruhtinaat, ja hävittää kaikki Setin lapset.

¹⁸ Hän omistaa Edomin, ja Seir tulee vihollistensa vallan alle, vaan Israel tekee voimallisia töitä.

¹⁹ Jakobista tulee hallitsia, ja hävittää mitä tähteeksi jäänyt on kaupungeista.

²⁰ Ja kuin hän näki Amalekilaiset, piti hän puheen ja sanoi: Amalek ensimäinen pakanain seassa, vaan viimeiseltä sinä peräti hävitetään.

²¹ Ja kuin hän näki Keniläiset, piti hän puheen, ja sanoi: sinun asumises on vahva, ja sinä teit pesäs kallioon,

²² Vaan sinä Kain poltetaan, siihenasti kuin Assur vie sinun vankina pois.

²³ Vihdoin piti hän puheen, ja sanoi: voi! kuka elää silloin, kuin väkevä Jumala näitä on tekevä?

²⁴ Ja haahdet Kittimin rannoilta kukistavat Assurin ja kukistavat Eberin, vaan hän itse myös hukkuu.

²⁵ Ja Bileam nousi ja meni matkaansa, ja tuli jälleen siallensa, ja Balak myös meni tietänsä myöten.

¹ After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

² Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

³ His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

⁴ For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

⁵ For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

⁶ Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷ The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

⁹ Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰ But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹ The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

¹² There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."

¹³ Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

¹⁵ The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

¹⁶ Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

¹⁷ If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

¹⁸ He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹⁹ Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

²⁰ The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

²¹ Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

²² Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

²³ If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

²⁴ Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

²⁵ Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶ Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

²⁷ However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

²⁸ Jesus 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.

²⁹ I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

³⁰ They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹ But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

³² The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

³³ Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

³⁴ You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

³⁵ The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

³⁶ What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

³⁷ Now 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!

³⁸ He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

³⁹ But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

⁴⁰ Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."

⁴¹ Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴² Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

⁴³ So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴ Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹ But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

⁵⁰ Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

⁵¹ "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

⁵² They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

⁵³ Everyone went to his own house,