John 7:2-13

2Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) was approaching.

3So His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do.

4No one does anything in secret when he wants to be known publicly. If You [must] do these things, show Yourself openly to the world and make Yourself known!”

5For not even His brothers believed in Him.

6So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you.

7The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil.

8Go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.”

9Having said these things to them, He stayed behind in Galilee.

10But [afterward], when His brothers had gone up to the feast, He went up too, not publicly [with a caravan], but quietly [because He did not want to be noticed].

11So the Jews kept looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”

12There was a lot of whispered discussion and murmuring among the crowds about Him. Some were saying, “He is a good man”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He misleads the people [giving them false ideas].”

13Yet no one was speaking out openly and freely about Him for fear of [the leaders of] the Jews.