John 7:1-13 ▼

1 After this, Jesus walked [from place to place] in Galilee, for He would not walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

2 Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) was approaching.

3 So His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do.

4 No one does anything in secret when he wants to be known publicly. If You [must] do these things, show Yourself openly to the world and make Yourself known!”

5 For not even His brothers believed in Him.

6 So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you.

7 The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify 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 come.”

9 Having said these things to them, He stayed behind in Galilee.

10 But [afterward], when His brothers had gone up to the feast, He went up too, not publicly [with a caravan], but quietly [because He did not want to be noticed].

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

12 There was a lot of whispered discussion and murmuring among the crowds about Him. Some were saying, “He is a good man”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He misleads the people [giving them false ideas].”

13 Yet no one was speaking out openly and freely about Him for fear of [the leaders of] the Jews.