John 7:1-9

¹After these things Jesus traveled about in Galilee, for he did not want to go into Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

²Now the Jewish Festival of Shelters was near.

³His brothers therefore said to him, “Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works that you do.

⁴No one does anything in secret if he himself wants to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

⁵For even his brothers did not believe in him.

⁶Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

⁸You go up to the festival; I am not going to this festival because my time has not yet been fulfilled.”

⁹After he said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.