John 7:6

6 So Jesus told them, "The right time has not yet come for me. For you, any time is right.

John 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

John 7:6

Then Jesus said unto them
In answer to their solicitations and arguments used with him, to go up to the feast:

my time is not yet come;
meaning, not the time of his death, or of his exaltation and glorification, or of the showing of himself forth unto the world; though all this was true; but of his going up to this feast; as appears from ( John 7:8 ) ;

but your time is always ready;
intimating, they might go at any time; their lives were not in any danger, as his was, and had nothing to consult about the preservation of them; it was all one to them when they went up, whether before the feast, that they might be ready for it, or at the beginning, middle, or end of it, as to any notice that would be taken of them, unless they should be guilty of an omission of their duty; but not on any other account; which was not his case.

John 7:6 In-Context

4 No one who wants to be well known does things in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

5 Even Jesus' own brothers did not believe in him.

6 So Jesus told them, "The right time has not yet come for me. For you, any time is right.

7 The people of the world can't hate you. But they hate me. This is because I give witness that what they do is evil.

8 "You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast. For me, the right time has not yet come."