Judges 3-4 John 7-

4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD's commands, which he had given their forefathers through Moses.
We are not supposed to test God but we see in vs 4 here that God tests us! We need to learn how God wants us to respond during those times of testing, are we going to pass or fail?

Judges is all about the Israelites following God, then doing evil in His sight forgetting God then crying out to God and the cycle repeats itself!
6 They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. 8 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years. 9 But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, who saved them.

Sometimes in life we just need someone to lead us! Vs 28, Ehud said "Follow me" and the people did!
28 "Follow me," he ordered, "for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands." So they followed him down and, taking possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab, they allowed no one to cross over.

In Judges chapter 4, God uses 2 women to accomplish His plans!
4 Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.
Vs 9 Deborah said, "I will go with you. But because of the way you are going about this, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will hand Sisera over to a woman."

21 But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.

John 4-
4No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." 5For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

It's sad to think that the people from Jesus' home town and even his family members didn't believe He was the Christ!

17If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.

I like seeing how the minds of the people at the feast were trying to figure out exactly who Christ was and decide that if He wasn't Christ if someone more fitting could come along!
31Still, many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man?"

Verse 39 tells us that the people were still under the old Law and hadn't received the Holy Sprit yet because Jesus hadn't been crucified and the atonement for sin hadn't been made yet.
39By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.