John 7:5

Amplified Bible

For not even His brothers believed in Him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

King James Version (1611)
For neither did his brethren beleeue in him.

King James Version
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

English Standard Version
For not even his brothers believed in him.

New American Standard Bible
For not even His brothers believed in Him.

New Century Version
(Even Jesus' brothers did not believe in him.)

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

Berean Standard Bible
For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.

Contemporary English Version
Even Jesus' own brothers had not yet become his followers.

Complete Jewish Bible
(His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.)

Darby Translation
for neither did his brethren believe on him.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus' brothers said this because even they did not believe in him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For as yet his brethren beleeued not in him.

George Lamsa Translation
For not even his own brothers believed in Jesus.

Good News Translation
(Not even his brothers believed in him.)

Lexham English Bible
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Literal Translation
For His brothers did not believe into Him.

American Standard Version
For even his brethren did not believe on him.

Bible in Basic English
For even his brothers had no belief in him.

Hebrew Names Version
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

International Standard Version
For not even his brothers believed in him.Mark 3:21;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For neither did his brethren believe in him, in Jeshu.

Murdock Translation
For even his brothers did not believe in Jesus.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For his brethren beleued not in hym.

English Revised Version
For even his brethren did not believe on him.

World English Bible
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
(For neither did his brethren believe on him.) Jesus saith to them, My time is not yet come: your time is always ready.

Weymouth's New Testament
For even His brothers were not believers in Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For nether hise britheren bileueden in hym.

Update Bible Version
For even his brothers did not believe on him.

Webster's Bible Translation
(For neither did his brethren believe in him.)

New English Translation
(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

New King James Version
For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

New Living Translation
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

New Life Bible
Not even His brothers were putting their trust in Him.

New Revised Standard
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, not even his brethren, were believing on him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

Revised Standard Version
For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For as yet his brethre beleved not in him.

Young's Literal Translation
for not even were his brethren believing in him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For his awne brethren also beleued not in him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for even his brethren did not believe in him.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Obviously his brothers didn't even believe in who he was at this time.

Contextual Overview

¹After this, Jesus walked [from place to place] in Galilee, for He would not walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. ²Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) was approaching. ³So His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do. ⁴"No one does anything in secret when he wants to be known publicly. If You [must] do these things, show Yourself openly to the world and make Yourself known!" ⁵For not even His brothers believed in Him.⁶So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you. ⁷"The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil. ⁸"Go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come." ⁹Having said these things to them, He stayed behind in Galilee. ¹⁰But [afterward], when His brothers had gone up to the feast, He went up too, not publicly [with a caravan], but quietly [because He did not want to be noticed].

Bible Verse Review
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John 1:11-13, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Mark 3:21

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:1 - Miriam 2 Samuel 19:41 - Why have Psalms 69:8 - become Jeremiah 12:6 - thy brethren Matthew 12:46 - his John 7:3 - brethren

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
So Noah did this; according to all that God commanded him, that is what he did.

Exodus 39:32
Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished; and the Israelites did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; that is what they did.

Exodus 40:16
Thus Moses did; in accordance with all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.

Psalms 119:6
Then I will not be ashamed When I look [with respect] to all Your commandments [as my guide].

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus replied to him, "Permit it just now; for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then John permitted [it and baptized] Him.

Luke 8:21
But He answered, "My mother and My brothers are these who listen to the word of God and do it!"

John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."

John 13:17
"If you know these things, you are blessed [happy and favored by God] if you put them into practice [and faithfully do them].

Philippians 2:8
After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Although He was a Son [who had never been disobedient to the Father], He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For neither did his brethren believe in him. At first they might take to him, and embrace him as the Messiah, and expect he would set up a temporal kingdom; in which they might hope, on account of their relation to him, according to the flesh to enjoy great honours and privileges; but finding that he was not inclined to anything of that nature, and talked in a quite different way, they grew sick of him, and rejected him, as the Messiah; so, little regard is to be had, or confidence placed, in carnal descent from, or alliance to the best of men; as to Abraham, or any other true believer, if they have not the same grace, or the same faith as such have; and which comes not by blood, or natural generation, but by the free favour of God; for it matters not, if men have known Christ, or have been allied to him after the flesh, unless they are new creatures in him; they may be the one, and not the other; even the carnal brethren of Christ, and yet not believers in him; and it is only such who are so in a spiritual sense, that are regarded by him, Matthew 12:49.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For there is no man ... - The brethren of Jesus supposed that he was influenced as others are. As it is a common thing among men to seek popularity, so they supposed that he would also seek it; and as a great multitude would be assembled at Jerusalem at this feast, they supposed it would be a favorable time to make himself known. What follows shows that this was said, probably, not in sincerity, but in derision; and to the other sufferings of our Lord was to be added, what is so common to Christians, derision from his relatives and friends on account of his pretensions. If our Saviour was derided, we also may expect to be by our relatives; and, having his example, we should be content to bear it.

If thou do ... - It appears from this that they did not really believe that he performed miracles; or, if they did believe it, they did not suppose that he was the Christ. Yet it seems hardly credible that they could suppose that his miracles were real, and yet not admit that he was the Messiah. Besides, there is no evidence that these relatives had been present at any of his miracles, and all that they knew of them might have been from report. See the notes at Mark 3:21. On the word brethren in John 7:5, see the Matthew 13:55 note, and Galatians 1:19 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:5. Neither did his brethren believe in him. — They did not receive him as the promised Messiah; but, having seen so many of his miracles, they could not but consider him as an eminent prophet. They supposed that, if he were the Messiah, he would wish to manifest himself as such to the world; and, because he did not do so, they did not believe that he was the salvation of Israel.