John 7:5
New International Version
For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

New Living Translation
For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

English Standard Version
For not even his brothers believed in him.

Berean Standard Bible
For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.

Berean Literal Bible
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

King James Bible
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

New King James Version
For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

New American Standard Bible
For not even His brothers believed in Him.

NASB 1995
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

NASB 1977
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

Amplified Bible
For not even His brothers believed in Him.

Christian Standard Bible
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Holman Christian Standard Bible
(For not even His brothers believed in Him.)

American Standard Version
For even his brethren did not believe on him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For his brothers also did not believe in Yeshua.

Contemporary English Version
Even Jesus' own brothers had not yet become his followers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

English Revised Version
For even his brethren did not believe on him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Even his brothers didn't believe in him.

Good News Translation
Not even his brothers believed in him.)

International Standard Version
Not even his brothers believed in him.

Literal Standard Version
for not even His brothers were believing in Him.

Majority Standard Bible
For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.

New American Bible
For his brothers did not believe in him.

NET Bible
(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

New Revised Standard Version
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

New Heart English Bible
For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Webster's Bible Translation
(For neither did his brethren believe in him.)

Weymouth New Testament
For even His brothers were not believers in Him.

World English Bible
For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

Young's Literal Translation
for not even were his brethren believing in him.

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Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
4For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.” 5For even His own brothers did not believe in Him. 6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.…

Cross References
Matthew 12:46
While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him.

Mark 3:21
When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, "He is out of His mind."

John 7:3
So Jesus' brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.

John 7:4
For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world."

John 7:10
But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went--not publicly, but in secret.


Treasury of Scripture

For neither did his brothers believe in him.

John 1:11-13
He came unto his own, and his own received him not…

Micah 7:5,6
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom…

Mark 3:21
And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

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John 7
1. Jesus reproves the ambition and boldness of his kinsmen;
10. goes up from Galilee to the feast of tabernacles;
14. teaches in the temple.
40. Various opinions of him among the people.
45. The Pharisees are angry that their officers took him not,
50. and chide with Nicodemus for taking his side.














(5) For neither did his brethren believe.--Comp. Note on John 7:3. The words do not admit of any other meaning than the obvious one that even His brethren did not at this time believe Him to be the Messiah. That they are found in the very first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles joining with the Apostles, and the women, and Mary, with one accord in prayer (John 7:14), is one of the striking instances of the hardened ground of human hearts passing into the fruitful ground receptive of the seed, as the case of Judas at the close of the last chapter is an instance of the opposite. For the immediate cause of the decisive change, see 1Corinthians 15:7.

Verse 5. - For not even did his brethren believe in him. The evangelist, writing a generation later, and keenly remembering the attitude the brothers had assumed before the Resurrection, adds, "not even his brothers," who ought to have been the most prominent of his disciples, "did up to this time believe on him," i.e. entrust themselves to him, dispose of their prejudices, change their conceptions, accept his spiritual lead, acknowledge his Divine mission, or know him to be the Holy One of God. They had not come into the position of the twelve. What ideas soever they grasped fell immeasurably short of "eating his flesh and drinking his blood," of coming to him, being given to him and drawn to him by the Father. It was a world Messiah, a theocratic King, a Prophet-Captain, a royal Christ, that they sought and would have been glad to find in him. This treatment of the Lord was another striking parallel to the temptation of Jesus as described by the synoptists, "All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (see note on ch. 4, and Introduction, VIII. 5). The non-belief of the brothers is in remarkable unison with the widespread unbelief of the people, who were anxious to discern the Christ of their own traditional expectations, and ready to press almost any possible claimant to premature demonstrations. The Pharisees and the people sought some sign from heaven. But while the people demanded it, they expected that he would and might gratify them if he chose. The Pharisees cynically tempted him to proclaim what they believed would prove his irremediable failure (Weiss, 'Life of Christ.,' vol. 3. Eng. trans., pp. 167-188).

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Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

[even]
οὐδὲ (oude)
Adverb
Strong's 3761: Neither, nor, not even, and not. From ou and de; not however, i.e. Neither, nor, not even.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[own]
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

brothers
ἀδελφοὶ (adelphoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

did {not} believe
ἐπίστευον (episteuon)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.

in
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Him.
αὐτόν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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