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.