John 7:1-9

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The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers

7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.^{(A) 2} Now the Jewish Festival of Booths^[a] was near.^{(B) 3} So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing,^{(C) 4} for no one who wants^[b] to be widely known acts in secret. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” ⁵ (For not even his brothers believed in him.)^{(D) 6} Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.^{(E) 7} The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.^{(F) 8} Go to the festival yourselves. I am not^[c] going to this festival, for my time has not yet fully come.” ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee.