John 7 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - John) Free Bible Online

1 - After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

2 - Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

3 - His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

4 - For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

5 - For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

6 - Jesus therefore said to them,"My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

7 - The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

8 - You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

9 - Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

10 - But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

11 - The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"