John 7:1-10 ▼

1 After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since he did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him.

2 The Jewish Festival of Shelters was near.

3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples can see your works that you are doing.

4 For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

5 (For not even his brothers believed in him.)

6 Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

7 The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it—that its works are evil.

8 Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.”

9 After he had said these things, he stayed in Galilee.

10 After his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly but secretly.