John 7:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Go ye up unto this feast; let not my forbearance to go up hinder your going up according to the law. I go not up yet unto this feast; I have some particular reasons why as yet I will not go to be there at the beginning of it. For my time is not yet full come; I know my time to go, when it will be most safe and proper for me. I shall be there some time during the feast, but my time is not yet come; I shall not be there at the beginning of it. It appeareth that he came not into the temple till about the middle of it, 1 Thessalonians 7:14, which was three or four days after it was began, for it held seven days, Leviticus 23:34. Or his time was not come, because he designed to go very privately without any notice taken of his coming; which must have been, if he had at that time gone up with his kindred and acquaintance.

John 7:8

8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.