John 7:6
4 For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
8 Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
- KJV
- Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
- WEB
- Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
- ASV
- Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
- DARBY
- Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.
- BLB
- Therefore Jesus says to them, “My time is not yet present, but your⁺ time is always ready.
- ÅB
- Jesus sier til dem: Min tid er enda ikke kommet; men deres tid er alltid forhånden.
- OTB
- Derfor sa Jesus til dem: «Min tid er ennå ikke kommet, men for dere er enhver tid passende.
- B1930
- Jesus sier til dem: Min tid er ennu ikke kommet; men eders tid er alltid forhånden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 7:8
Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
Read in contextJohn 2:4
“Woman, why does this concern us?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
Read in contextJohn 7:30
So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
Read in contextJohn 17:1
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
Read in contextJohn 13:1
It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
Read in contextJohn 8:20
He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
Read in contextMatthew 26:18
He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’”
Read in contextActs 1:7
Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
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