约翰福音 7:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們上去過節吧！我現在不上去，因為我的時機還沒有成熟。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 上 去 过 节 罢 ， 我 现 在 不 上 去 过 这 节 ， 因 为 我 的 时 候 还 没 有 满 。

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

I go not: John 7:6, John 7:30, John 8:20, John 8:30, John 11:6, John 11:7, 1 Corinthians 2:15, 1 Corinthians 2:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:41 - selfsame John 11:55 - before

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go we up unto this feast,.... Suggesting, that he would not have them stay for him, or hinder themselves on his account: he encourages them to go up, and observe this festival; for the ceremonial law was not yet abolished; and though they were carnal men, and did not understand what it typified: and so unregenerate persons ought to attend on the outward means, as the hearing of the word, c. though they do not understand it it may be God may make use of it, for the enlightening of their minds; and blessed are they that wait at Wisdom's gates, and there find Christ, and life and salvation by him:

I go not up yet unto this feast; this clause, in one of Beza's copies, is wholly left out; and in some, the word "this" is not read; and in others it is read, "I go not up unto this feast"; leaving out the word "yet"; and so read the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; and the Persic version only, "I do not go up"; which occasioned Porphyry, that great enemy of Christianity, to reproach Christ, as guilty of inconstancy, or of an untruth, since he afterwards did go up: but in almost all the ancient copies the word is read; and so it is by Chrysostom and Nonnus; and to the same sense the Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "I do not go up now to this feast"; that is, just at that very time, that very day or hour: which is entirely consistent with what is afterwards said,

for my time is not yet full come; not to die, or to be glorified, but to go up to the feast.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I go not up yet - Jesus remained until about the middle of the feast, John 7:14. That is, he remained about four days after his brethren had departed, or until the mass of the people had gone up, so that his going might excite no attention, and that it might not be said he chose such a time to excite a tumult. We have here a signal instance of our Lord’s prudence and opposition to parade. Though it would have been lawful for him to go up at that time, and though it would have been a favorable period to make himself known, yet he chose to forego these advantages rather than to afford an occasion of envy and jealousy to the rulers, or to appear even to excite a tumult among the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:8. I go not up yet unto this feast — Porphyry accuses our blessed Lord of falsehood, because he said here, I will not go to this feast, and yet afterwards he went; and some interpreters have made more ado than was necessary, in order to reconcile this seeming contradiction. To me the whole seems very simple and plain. Our Lord did not say, I will not go to this feast; but merely, I go not yet, ουπω, or am not going, i.e. at present; because, as he said John 7:6, and repeats here, his time was not yet come-he had other business to transact before he could go. And it is very likely that his business detained him in Galilee till the feast was half over: for we do not find him at Jerusalem till the middle of the feast, John 7:14, i.e. till the feast had been begun four days. He might also be unwilling to go at that time, there being such a great concourse of people on the road to Jerusalem, and his enemies might say that he had availed himself of this time and multitude in order to excite sedition.