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Jesus Goes To Jerusalem For The Feast of Tabernacles

Now the Tent-pitching[a] Feast of the Jews was near. So His brothers said to Him, “Pass-on from here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] also will see Your works which You are doing. For no one does something in secret and himself seeks to be in public. If You are doing these things, make Yourself known[b] to the world”. (For not even His brothers were believing in Him). So Jesus says to them, “My time[c] is not yet here, but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you, but it is hating Me because I am testifying about it that its works are evil. You go up to the Feast. I am not going up to this Feast, because My time has not yet been fulfilled”. And having said these things, He remained in Galilee.

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:2 Or, Booth-building. That is, the Feast of Tents (Tabernacles) in October.
  2. John 7:4 Or, reveal Yourself.
  3. John 7:6 Or, favorable-time, right-time. That is, My time to go up openly (v 10) and reveal Myself (v 4).

After that He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

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