John 7:9

9 When he had said these things, he dwelt 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 may not hate you, soothly it hateth me; for I bear witnessing thereof, that the works of it be evil.

8 Go ye up to this feast day, but I shall not go up to this feast day, for my time is not yet fulfilled [full-filled].

9 When he had said these things, he dwelt in Galilee.

10 And after that his brethren were gone up, then [and] he went up to the feast day, not openly, but as in private.

11 Therefore the Jews sought him in the feast day, and said, Where is he?