Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
Parallel translations
- WEB You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
- KJV Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full 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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Quick answer
Jesus tells His brothers to go up to the feast but says He is not yet going, because His appointed time has not come. He moves according to the Father's timing, not human pressure.
Overview
The Feast of Tabernacles drew crowds to Jerusalem, and Jesus' brothers wanted Him to make a public spectacle. Jesus refuses to act on their terms, governing His movements by the Father's set times rather than human strategy. His repeated awareness of His 'time' and 'hour' throughout John's Gospel points to the sovereign plan culminating at the cross.
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Cross-references · 6
- John 7:6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
- John 8:20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
- 1 Cor 2:15–16The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.
- John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
- John 8:30As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.
- John 11:6–7So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,
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