João 7:8

8 Vão vocês à festa; eu ainda^[a] não subirei a esta festa, porque para mim ainda não chegou o tempo apropriado”.

João 7:8 Meaning and Commentary

John 7:8

Go we up unto this feast
Suggesting, that he would not have them stay for him, or hinder themselves on his account: he encourages them to go up, and observe this festival; for the ceremonial law was not yet abolished; and though they were carnal men, and did not understand what it typified: and so unregenerate persons ought to attend on the outward means, as the hearing of the word though they do not understand it; it may be God may make use of it, for the enlightening of their minds; and blessed are they that wait at Wisdom's gates, and there find Christ, and life and salvation by him:

I go not up yet unto this feast;
this clause, in one of Beza's copies, is wholly left out; and in some, the word "this" is not read; and in others it is read, "I go not up unto this feast"; leaving out the word "yet"; and so read the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; and the Persic version only, "I do not go up"; which occasioned Porphyry, that great enemy of Christianity, to reproach Christ, as guilty of inconstancy, or of an untruth, since he afterwards did go up: but in almost all the ancient copies the word is read; and so it is by Chrysostom and Nonnus; and to the same sense the Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "I do not go up now to this feast"; that is, just at that very time, that very day or hour: which is entirely consistent with what is afterwards said,

for my time is not yet full come;
not to die, or to be glorified, but to go up to the feast.

João 7:8 In-Context

6 Então Jesus lhes disse: “Para mim ainda não chegou o tempo certo; para vocês qualquer tempo é certo.

7 O mundo não pode odiá-los, mas a mim odeia porque dou testemunho de que o que ele faz é mau.

8 Vão vocês à festa; eu ainda não subirei a esta festa, porque para mim ainda não chegou o tempo apropriado”.

9 Tendo dito isso, permaneceu na Galileia.

10 Contudo, depois que os seus irmãos subiram para a festa, ele também subiu, não abertamente, mas em segredo.

Footnotes

• [a] Vários manuscritos não trazem "ainda."