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

1Jesus later traveled throughout Galilee. He didn’t want to travel in Judea because Jews there wanted to kill him. The time for the Jewish Festival of Booths was near. 3So Jesus’ brothers told him, “Leave this place, and go to Judea so that your disciples can see the things that you’re doing. 4No one does things secretly when he wants to be known publicly. If you do these things, you should let the world see you.”

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 23:16“Celebrate the Festival of the Harvest with the first produce harvested from whatever you plant in your fields. “Celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the year when you harvest your crops from the fields.
• Leviticus 23:34“Tell the Israelites: The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to the Lord. It will last seven days.
• Numbers 29:12“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you must have a holy assembly. You must not do any regular work. Instead, celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.
• Deuteronomy 16:13After you have gathered the grain from your threshing floor and made your wine, celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days.
• 1 Kings 8:2All the people of Israel gathered around King Solomon at the Festival ⌞of Booths⌟ in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.
• 2 Chronicles 7:9On the eighth day there was an assembly. They had observed the dedication of the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for ⌞another⌟ seven days.
• Ezra 3:4Following the written directions, they celebrated the Festival of Booths. Each day they sacrificed the required number of burnt offerings.
• Nehemiah 8:14They found written in the Teachings that the Lord had given an order through Moses that the people of Israel should live in booths during a festival in the seventh month.
• Zechariah 14:16Everyone who is left from all the nations that attacked Jerusalem will come every year to worship the king, the Lord of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

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