The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not[a] going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed.[b] And when he[c] had said these things, he remained in Galilee.

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:8 Most manuscripts read “not yet” here, but this is obviously an easier reading intended to reconcile the statement with Jesus’ later actions
  2. John 7:8 Or “fulfilled”
  3. John 7:9 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal