John 7:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then Jesus said unto them,My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. ”

• John 7:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  My time ... - The proper time for my going up to the feast. We know not why it was not yet a proper time for him to go. It might be because if he went then, in their company, while multitudes wer...

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• John 7:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (2) Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. (2) We must not follow the foolish desires of our friends.

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• John 7:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 7. The Feast of Tabernacles. John 7:1-9 . The Remonstrance of the Brethren. This incident is often now used to support the view that in the original draft of the gospel no visit to Jerusalem...

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• John 7:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Then . Therefore. Not the same word as in John 7:10 . time . seasonable moment. not yet . Greek. oupo. . compound of ou (App-105). The Lord's death was accomplished by Himself. See John 10:17...

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• John 7:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. My time is not yet come. There are some who erroneously interpret this as referring to the time of his death, for it denotes the time of his setting out on the journey to go to the...

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• John 7:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. My time is not yet come - It is probable our Lord meant no more than this, that he had some business to transact befo...

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• John 7:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Then Jesus said—My time is not yet come, &c.— Jesus, knowing the malice of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, did not incline to be among them longer than was absolutely necessary, knowing that they...

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• John 7:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. Then Jesus said unto them, My time - for showing Myself to the world - "is not yet come: but your time is alw...

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• John 7:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Feast of Tabernacles John 7:1 to John 10:21 . Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6 , delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go...

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• John 7:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  My time is not yet come. — Comp. Note on John 2:4 . Here, as there, He regards the events of life as marked out by divinely-ordered seasons. There is for Him a time for solemnly entering Jerusalem...

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• John 7:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast...

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• John 7:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Known by Our Attitude toward Jesus John 7:1-13 This feast was celebrated in October. Six entire months had elapsed between this and the preceding chapter. During the Feast of Tabernacles the pe...

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• John 7:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two yea...

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• John 7:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. (2) Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. (3) His brethren therefore said un...

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• John 7:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then Jesus said unto them ,.... In answer to their solicitations and arguments used with him, to go up to the feast: my time is not yet come ; meaning, not the time of his death, or of his exaltat...

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• John 7:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. Ver. 6. My time is not yet come ] sc. My time of journeying to Jerusalem; I must take my best opportunity, when...

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• John 7:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand Instituted in commemoration of the Israelites dwelling in tents in the wilderness, and celebrated in booths erected for that purpose, with great solem...

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• John 7:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lo...

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• John 7:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Discourse with His Brethren; The Rumours Respecting Christ.       1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not...

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• John 7:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  My time is not yet come; the time of my death, say some; of my manifestation to the world, say others: but questionless our Saviour intends no more than his time for going up to this feast, for we...

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• John 7:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus In Danger ( John 7:1-13 ). It is now made clear that at this stage Jesus was under constant threat of death from the authorities in Judea and Jerusalem, so much so that He was unable to go t...

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• John 7:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 7:1 . Jewry .— i.e. Judæa. Kill Him. —See John 5:18 . John 7:2 . Feast of tabernacles. —Fifteenth day of seventh month, Tisri (September–October). See H...

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• John 7:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 7:1-5 . After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. His brethren therefore...

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• John 7:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 7:1 . He would not walk in Jewry, or Judea, because the jews sought to kill him. Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same...

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• John 7:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  After these things Jesus walked in Galilee. The situation surveyed I. THE SCENE IN GALILEE: the attitude of Christ’s brethren. 1. The counsel they offered. That Christ should repair to the c...

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• John 7:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of...

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• John 7:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come, but your time is alway ready.

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• John 7:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 1:7 ; Ecclesiastes 3:1 ; John 13:1 ; John 17:1 ; John 2:4 ; John 7:30 ; John 7:8 ; John 8:20 ; Psalms 102:13

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• John 7:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Jesus saith, Your time is always ready — This or any time will suit you.

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