John 7:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Go ye up unto this feast - or, 'the feast,' as, perhaps, is the preferable reading here. I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come: - q. d., 'It matters little when ye go up, for ye have no great plans in life, and nothing hangs upon your movements: With Me it is otherwise; on every movement of Mine there hangs what ye know not: The world has no quarrel with you, for ye bear no testimony against it, and so draw down upon yourselves none of its wrath; but I am here to lift up My voice against its hypocrisy, and denounce its abominations; therefore it cannot endure Me, and one false step might precipitate its fury on its Victim's head before the time: Away, therefore, to the feast as soon as it suits you; I follow at the fitting moment, but "My time is not yet full come."

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.