John 7:4-14

4 People don't hide what they are doing if they want to be well known. Since you are doing these things, let the whole world know about you!
5 (Not even his brothers believed in him.)
6 Jesus said to them, "The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.
8 You go on to the festival. I am not going to this festival, because the right time has not come for me."
9 He said this and then stayed on in Galilee.
10 After his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus also went; however, he did not go openly, but secretly.
11 The Jewish authorities were looking for him at the festival. "Where is he?" they asked.
12 There was much whispering about him in the crowd. "He is a good man," some people said. "No," others said, "he fools the people."
13 But no one talked about him openly, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities.
14 The festival was nearly half over when Jesus went to the Temple and began teaching.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. I am not going; [some manuscripts have] I am not yet going.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.