John 7:1-9

Jesus Teaches at the Feast

1 After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.

2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles ^[a] was near.

3 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.

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 ^[b] going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”

9 Having said this, Jesus remained in Galilee.

Footnotes

• [a] That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; also translated as the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Shelters and originally called the Feast of Ingathering (see Exodus 23:16 and Exodus 34:22).
• [b] NE, WH, BYZ, and TR I am not yet