John 7:5

King James Version

For neither did his brethren believe 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.

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.)

Amplified Bible
For not even His brothers believed 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
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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

¹ After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. ² Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand. ³ His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. ⁴ For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world. ⁵ For neither did his brethren believe in him. ⁶ Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. ⁷ The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. ⁸ Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come. ⁹ When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. ¹⁰ But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

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
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Exodus 39:32
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.

Exodus 40:16
Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.

Psalms 119:6
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

Matthew 3:15
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Luke 8:21
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

John 2:5
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

John 13:17
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

Philippians 2:8
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which 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.