The Feast of Tabernacles

7:1 After this1 Jesus traveled throughout Galilee.2 He3 stayed out of Judea4 because the Jewish leaders5 wanted6 to kill him. 7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles7 was near.8 7:3 So Jesus’ brothers9 advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.10 7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself11 does anything in secret.12 If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 7:5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)13

7:6 So Jesus replied,14 “My time15 has not yet arrived,16 but you are ready at any opportunity!17 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil. 7:8 You go up18 to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast19 because my time20 has not yet fully arrived.”21 7:9 When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

7:10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus22 himself also went up, not openly but in secret. 7:11 So the Jewish leaders23 were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”24 7:12 There was25 a lot of grumbling26 about him among the crowds.27 Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.”28 7:13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.29