Johannes 7:6

6 Jezus dan zeide tot hen: Mijn tijd is nog niet hier, maar uw tijd is altijd bereid.

Johannes 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.

Johannes 7:6 In-Context

4 Want niemand doet iets in het verborgen, en zoekt zelf, dat men openlijk van hem spreke. Indien Gij deze dingen doet, zo openbaar Uzelven aan de wereld.

5 Want ook Zijn broeders geloofden niet in Hem.

6 Jezus dan zeide tot hen: Mijn tijd is nog niet hier, maar uw tijd is altijd bereid.

7 De wereld kan ulieden niet haten, maar Mij haat zij, omdat Ik van dezelve getuig, dat haar werken boos zijn.

8 Gaat gijlieden op tot dit feest; Ik ga nog niet op tot dit feest; want Mijn tijd is nog niet vervuld.