John 7:2

John 7:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.
• New International Version (NIV)But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

Context of John 7:2

1After this, Jesus visited many places in Galilee. He did not want to visit Judea because the Jewish leaders there wanted to kill him. It was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles. 3So Jesus' brothers said to him, ‘You should leave this place and you should go to Judea. Then your disciples will see the great things that you do. 4Nobody does things secretly if he wants everyone to know him. You are doing these things, so you should show yourself to everybody.’

John 7:2 word by word

ἦν δὲ ἐγγὺς ἡ ἑορτὴ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἡ σκηνοπηγία.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Nowδέde · thenG1161
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the Jews’ἸουδαῖοςIoudaios · JewG2453
• feastἑορτήheortē · festivalG1859
• of tabernaclesσκηνοπηγίαskēnopēgia · Feast|Festival of BoothsG4634
• wasεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• at handἐγγύςeggus · nearG1451

Cross-references for John 7:2

• Exodus 23:16Eat the Feast of Harvest every year. Offer to me the first crops that you bring from your fields. At the end of each year, eat Feast of Final Harvest. Do that when you have finished bringing in all of your crops from the fields.
• Leviticus 23:34‘Tell Israel's people that the Feast of Huts will start on the 15th day of the seventh month. The feast will continue for seven days, as people worship the Lord.
• Numbers 29:12On the 15th day of the seventh month, you must come together for a holy meeting. You must not work at your jobs. You must have a feast to the Lord for seven days.
• Deuteronomy 16:13When you have prepared the grain and the grapes from your fields, eat the Feast of Huts for seven days.
• 1 Kings 8:2So all the Israelite leaders came together to meet with King Solomon. This happened during the Festival of Huts in the seventh month of the year, called Ethanim.
• 2 Chronicles 7:9On the day after the festival, they all met together. For seven days, they had given offerings to make the altar holy for God. For another seven days, they had enjoyed the festival.
• Ezra 3:4Then they had the Feast of Huts, as the law said they should do. On each day of the feast they made the right number of burnt offerings.
• Nehemiah 8:14They discovered what the Lord had commanded about a certain feast. The Lord had told Moses that the Israelites should live in huts during this feast. They should do that in the seventh month of each year.
• Zechariah 14:16Some of the soldiers from the countries that attacked Jerusalem will not die. They will go to Jerusalem year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty. They will worship him at the Feast of Huts.

Commentaries on John 7:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Feast of tabernacles - This feast was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the month Tisri, answering to the last half of our September, and the first half of October. This month was the seventh of the ecclesiastical, and first of the civil, year. The feast took its name from the tents which were erected about the temple, in public places, in courts, and on the flat roofs of their houses, and in gardens; in which the Jews dwelt for eight days, in…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2The Jews‘ feast of tabernacles - Or the feast of tents. This feast was celebrated on the 15th day of the month Tisrianswering to the last half of our month September and the first half of October, Numbers 29:12; Deuteronomy 16:13-15. It was so called from the tents or tabernacles which on that occasion were erected in and about Jerusalem, and was designed to commemorate their dwelling in tents in the wilderness, Nehemiah 8:16-18. During the continuance of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The law of Moses required Jewish men to come to the temple for the Feast of Tabernacles (Exodus 23:14–17; Deuteronomy 16:16). This annual seven-day autumn harvest feast happened in Jerusalem six months after Passover (John 6:4). During the feast, people lived in temporary shelters to remember the tents Israel used during their 40 years in the wilderness.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-531-2. After these things--that is, all that is recorded after Joh 5:18. walked in Galilee--continuing His labors there, instead of going to Judea, as might have been expected. sought to kill him--referring back to Joh 5:18. Hence it appears that our Lord did not attend the Passover mentioned in Joh 6:4--being the third since His ministry began, if the feast mentioned in Joh 5:1 was a Passover.Read the comment

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Commentaries on John 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings