NEW TESTAMENT

John 7:8

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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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