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6 Then Jesus said to them, a“My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.  
7 aThe world cannot hate you, but it hates Me bbecause I testify of it that its works are evil.  
8 You go up to this feast. I am not1 yet going up to this feast, afor My time has not yet fully come.”  
9 When He had said these things to them, He remained in Galilee.

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10 But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11 Then athe Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, “Where is He?”  
12 And athere was much complaining among the people concerning Him. bSome said, “He is good”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He deceives the people.”  
13 However, no one spoke openly of Him afor fear of the Jews.  
14 Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and ataught.  
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Adam Clarke
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John 7:8

I go not up yet unto this feast - Porphyry accuses our blessed Lord of falsehood, because he said here, I will not go to this feast, and yet afterwards he went; and some interpreters have made more ado than was necessary, in order to reconcile this seeming contradiction. To me the whole seems very simple and plain. Our Lord did not say, I will not go to this feast; but merely, I go not yet, , or am not going, i.e. at present; because, as he said John 7:6, and repeats here, his time was not yet come - he had other business to transact before he could go. And it is very likely that his business detained him in Galilee till the feast was half over: for we do not find him at Jerusalem till the middle of the feast, John 7:14, i.e. till the feast had been begun four days. He might also be unwilling to go at that time, there being such a great concourse of people on the road to Jerusalem, and his enemies might say that he had availed himself of this time and multitude in order to excite sedition.




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