John 7:5

New Living Translation

For even his brothers didn't 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.

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.)

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 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 this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea, where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death. ² But soon it was time for the Jewish Festival of Shelters, ³ and Jesus' brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles! ⁴ You can't become famous if you hide like this! If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world!" ⁵ For even his brothers didn't believe in him. ⁶ Jesus replied, "Now is not the right time for me to go, but you can go anytime. ⁷ The world can't hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil. ⁸ You go on. I'm not going to this festival, because my time has not yet come." ⁹ After saying these things, Jesus remained in Galilee. ¹⁰ But after his brothers left for the festival, Jesus also went, though secretly, staying out of public view.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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 everything exactly as God had commanded him.

Exodus 39:32
And so at last the Tabernacle was finished. The Israelites had done everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:16
Moses proceeded to do everything just as the Lord had commanded him.

Psalms 119:6
Then I will not be ashamed when I compare my life with your commands.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus said, "It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires." So John agreed to baptize him.

Luke 8:21
Jesus replied, "My mother and my brothers are all those who hear God's word and obey it."

John 2:5
But his mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

John 13:17
Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

Philippians 2:8
he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Even though Jesus was God's Son, he learned obedience from the things 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.