John 7:9

9 After saying this, Jesus stayed in Galilee.

John 7:9 Meaning and Commentary

John 7:9

When he had said these words unto them
Had exhorted them to go up to the feast, and told them that he should not go yet, and the reason of it:

he abode [still] in Galilee;
and went not up with his brethren, nor at all at present; showing hereby a firmness and resolution of mind, not using lightness of speech; and his words being not yea, and nay, but all of a piece, and by which he abode.

John 7:9 In-Context

7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does.

8 So you go to the feast. I will not go yet to this feast, because the right time for me has not yet come."

9 After saying this, Jesus stayed in Galilee.

10 But after Jesus' brothers had gone to the feast, Jesus went also. But he did not let people see him.

11 At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, "Where is that man?"