Our scriptural text today comes from the seventh chapter of the Gospel of St. John, beginning

with the first verse down through the fifth verse, reading from the New Living Translation

of the Scriptures. You'll notice there these words. After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee.

He wanted to stay out of Judea where the Jewish leaders were plotting

his death. But soon it was time for the Jewish festival of shelters, and Jesus' brothers said to him,

leave here and go to Judea where your followers can see your miracles. You can't become famous if you

hide like this.

If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world.

For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

And so I'm talking today simply from the subject, the issue of blood, the issue of blood.

Jesus' own brothers didn't believe in him, and you see it evident.

They are saying, why don't you show some miracle, Jesus, and show them what you can do.

You don't become famous by just hiding and playing it safe. They had plotted to kill him, and Jesus knew it's not my time yet. So sometimes,

when it's not your time yet, you got to lay low until it is your time. So Jesus knew what he was doing,

but his brothers were trying to out him, not because they wanted

them to do something to show the world.

They didn't believe him, so they're like secretly saying, show us.

But the ironic thing about this is that in the previous chapter, in St. John chapter 6,

Jesus had just walked on the water.

We don't have any record of anybody else walking on the water. I mean, Moses parted the waters and they walked through on dry land, but there's

the difference between walking through on dry land and walking on the water. Jesus didn't have to

part the waters. He walked on top of what other folks had to part. So Jesus is doing a miracle that nobody

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