John 7:1-12 ▼

1 After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.

3 So His brothers said to Him, “Move on from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing.

4 For no one does anything in secret when he himself is striving to be known publicly. If You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”

5 For not even His brothers believed in Him.

6 So Jesus said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your time is always ready.

7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its deeds are evil.

8 Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet fully arrived.”

9 Now having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.

10 But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as though in secret.

11 So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and saying, “Where is He?”

12 And there was a great deal of talk about Him in secret among the crowds: some were saying, “He is a good man”; others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He is misleading the people.”