John 7:8

John 7:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
• New International Version (NIV)You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."
• New King James Version (NKJV)You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.”

Context of John 7:8

6Jesus told them, “Now is not the right time for me to go. Any time is right for you. 7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I say that what everyone does is evil. Go to the festival. I’m not going to this festival right now. Now is not the right time for me to go.” 9After saying this, Jesus stayed in Galilee. 10But after his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus went. He didn’t go publicly but secretly.

John 7:8 word by word

ὑμεῖς ἀνάβητε εἰς τὴν ἑορτήν ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀναβαίνω εἰς τὴν ἑορτὴν ταύτην, ὅτι ὁ ἐμὸς καιρὸς οὔπω πεπλήρωται.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Goἀναβαίνωanabainō · to ascendG305
• yeσύsu · youG4771
• untoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• feastὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• feastἑορτήheortē · festivalG1859
• Iἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• notοὔπωoupō · not yetG3768
• forὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• myἐμόςemos · mineG1699
• timeκαιρόςkairos · time/right timeG2540
• isπληρόωplēroō · to fulfillG4137

Cross-references for John 7:8

• John 7:6Jesus told them, “Now is not the right time for me to go. Any time is right for you.
• John 8:20Jesus spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury area of the temple courtyard. No one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.
• John 11:6Yet, when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.
• 1 Corinthians 2:15Spiritual people evaluate everything but are subject to no one’s evaluation.

Commentaries on John 7:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8I go not up yet unto this feast - Porphyry accuses our blessed Lord of falsehood, because he said here, I will not go to this feast, and yet afterwards he went; and some interpreters have made more ado than was necessary, in order to reconcile this seeming contradiction. To me the whole seems very simple and plain. Our Lord did not say, I will not go to this feast; but merely, I go not yet, , or am not going, i.e. at present; because, as he said John 7:6…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8I go not up yet - Jesus remained until about the middle of the feast, John 7:14. That is, he remained about four days after his brethren had departed, or until the mass of the people had gone up, so that his going might excite no attention, and that it might not be said he chose such a time to excite a tumult. We have here a signal instance of our Lord‘s prudence and opposition to parade. Though it would have been lawful for him to go up at that time, and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-8My time has not yet come: Jesus said that it was not the right time for him to go publicly to Jerusalem. Later, however, he did go to the city. He went quietly and not in a public way (7:10; compare study note on 12:23).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-106-10. My time is not yet come--that is, for showing Himself to the world. your time is always ready--that is "It matters little when we go up, for ye have no great plans in life, and nothing hangs upon your movements. With Me it is otherwise; on every movement of Mine there hangs what ye know not. The world has no quarrel with you, for ye bear no testimony against it, and so draw down upon yourselves none of its wrath; but I am here to lift up My voice…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