约翰福音 7:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

但沒有人敢公開講論他，因為怕猶太人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
只 是 没 有 人 明 明 的 讲 论 他 ， 因 为 怕 犹 太 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹ After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because some evil people there wanted to kill him. ² It was time for the Feast of Shelters. ³ So Jesus' brothers said to him, "You should leave here and go to Judea so your followers there can see the miracles you do. ⁴ Anyone who wants to be well known does not hide what he does. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." ⁵ (Even Jesus' brothers did not believe in him.) ⁶ Jesus said to his brothers, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does. ⁸ So you go to the feast. I will not go yet to this feast, because the right time for me has not yet come." ⁹ After saying this, Jesus stayed in Galilee. ¹⁰ But after Jesus' brothers had gone to the feast, Jesus went also. But he did not let people see him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spake: John 3:2, John 9:22, John 9:34, John 12:42, John 12:43, John 19:38, John 20:19, Proverbs 29:25, Galatians 2:12, Galatians 2:13, 2 Timothy 2:9-13, Revelation 2:13

Reciprocal: John 11:54 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:10
He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18
But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives will all go into the boat.

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

Genesis 7:2
Take with you seven pairs, each male with its female, of every kind of clean animal, and take one pair, each male with its female, of every kind of unclean animal.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:7
He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:9
came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:18
The water continued to rise, and the boat floated on it above the earth.

Genesis 7:19
The water rose so much that even the highest mountains under the sky were covered by it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, no man spoke openly of him,.... So loud as to be overheard, at least by many, but in a secret and whispering way; or did not speak with freedom, or all their mind, what they really thought of him, nor with courage and boldness:

for fear the Jews; for fear of being mobbed by them, or up and prosecuted, or turned out of the synagogue; for a law was made, that whoever confessed him, should be so used; and this deterred persons from expressing the true sentiments of their minds about him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Spake openly of him - The word translated “openly,” here, is commonly rendered “boldly.” This refers doubtless, to those who really believed on him. His enemies were not silent; but his friends had not confidence to speak of him openly or boldly that is, to speak what they really thought. Many supposed that he was the Messiah, yet even this they did not dare to profess. All that they could say in his favor was that he was a good man. There are always many such friends of Jesus in the world who are desirous of saying something good about him, but who, from fear or shame, refuse to make a full acknowledgment of him. Many will praise his morals, his precepts, and his holy life, while they are ashamed to speak of his divinity or his atonement, and still more to acknowledge that they are dependent on him for salvation.