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After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters John 7:1–13
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Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
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Verse 2. This was the festival of Tabernacles, on which the Jews made tents, in imitation of those which were their habitations during their sojournment in the wilderness, for forty years. See Leviticus 23:34. The Jews called it a festival day; though it consisted not of one, but of many days successively. Saint Augustine, tract. 28. in Joan.
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His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
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Verse 3. These brethren of Christ were the relatives of the blessed Virgin, not her children. For, as in the sepuchre, were the body of our Saviour was deposited, no other mortal lay either before or since; so neither did the womb of Mary ever either before or after bear any other body but that of her divine Son. Saint Augustine, ut supra.
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For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
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For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
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Verse 5. Neither did his brethren believe in him; by his brethren here, we are to understand his kindred, this townsmen or countrymen, at or about Nazareth. Witham.
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6
Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
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7
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
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8
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
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Verse 8. Go you up to this festival day, which lasted eight days.—I go not with you, nor to be there at the first day, nor in that public manner as you desire. But when the feast was half over, about the fourth day, Jesus went thither in a private manner, yet so that when he arrived, he spoke publicly in the temple. Witham.
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Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
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10
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
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Verse 10. But why does he ascend to the festival day, when he said he would not? He did not say, I will not ascend, but only, I do not ascend; that is, in your company. Saint John Chrysostom hom. xlvii in Joan.—Or, I do not go up to this festival, that is the first or second day of the feast, which lasted eight days, and to which you wish me to ascend: but he went afterwards, when the first part of the festival was over. Saint Augustine, tract. 28. in Joan.
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11
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
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12
There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”
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Verse 12. It was the people that held the favourable opinion of Christ, whilst on the contrary, the Scribes and Pharisees speak ill of him, saying, he seduceth not us, but he seduceth the multitude. Saint John Chrysostom hom. xlviii in Joan.
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13
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
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Verse 13. No one publicly took the part of Jesus, however favourable were their private sentiments; for the Jews hated and persecuted such as sided with him. V.
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