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JOHN 7:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.”
Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come — Jesus tells his brothers to go while he remains behind—at least for the moment ('not yet'). This apparent refusal of the festival becomes an ironic assent: Jesus will indeed go up, but according to his own purpose and timing. The delay heightens the mystery of his arrival and underscores that his movements are not reactions to social expectation. When he does appear, it will be with full awareness and intentionality, not as a response to pressure.

Church Fathers on John 7:8

As the believer in Christ would have in time to, come to hide himself from persecution, that no guilt might attach to such concealment, the Head began with doing Himself, what He sanctioned in the member; After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him.

Augustine · 4th century

The connection of this passage admits of much taking place in the interval previously. Judea and Galilee are divisions of the province of Palestine. Judea has its name from the tribe of Judah; but it embraces not only the territories of Judah, but of Benjamin, all of which were called Judea, because Judah was the royal tribe Galilee has its name, from the milky, i.e. white, color of its inhabitants; Galilee being Greek for milk.

Bede · 8th century

That is to say, He displayed the attribute both of divinity and humanity. He fled from His persecutors as man, He remained and appeared amongst them as God; being really both.

Chrysostom · 4th century
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