John 7:6

6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.

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 For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”

5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.

6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.

7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

8 Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”