John 7:1-13 ▼

1 After this, Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.

2 But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

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

4 No one works in secret if he wants to be known publicly. If you do these things, manifest yourself to the world.”

5 For his brothers did not believe in him.

6 So Jesus said to them, “My time is not yet here, but the time is always right for you.

7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify to it that its works are evil.

8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time has not yet been fulfilled.”

9 After he had said this, he stayed on in Galilee.

10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but [as it were] in secret.

11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast and saying, “Where is he?”

12 And there was considerable murmuring about him in the crowds. Some said, “He is a good man,” [while] others said, “No; on the contrary, he misleads the crowd.”

13 Still, no one spoke openly about him because they were afraid of the Jews.