You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.
- BSB Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
- ESV You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”
- NKJV You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.”
- NASB Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet fully arrived.”
- NLT You go on. I’m not going to this festival, because my time has not yet come.”
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Cross-references · 6
- John 7:6Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
- John 8:20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
- 1 Cor 2:15–16But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
- John 7:30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
- John 8:30As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
- John 11:6–7When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
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