Go ye up to the feast (υμεις αναβητε εις την εορτην). The emphatic word by position is υμεις (ye) in contrast with εγω (I). Second…

I go not up yet. Jesus remained until about the middle of the feast (John 7:14). That is, he remained about four days after hi…

Go you up to this feast.—This should be, rather, Go you up to the feast, with the stress on the pronoun “you,” and the ar…

Then Jesus said to them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify o…

St. Augustine of Hippo: As the believer in Christ would in time have to hide from persecution, so that no guilt might attach to …

Jesus did not plan to go immediately to Jerusalem; he would wait until “the right time.” His brothers may have intended to make a show of his arriv…

Go we up unto this feast
Suggesting, that he would not have them stay for him, or hinder themselves on his account: …

The brothers or kinsmen of Jesus were disgusted when they found there was no prospect of worldly advantages from him. Ungodly men sometimes underta…

1. After our Lord considered the spiritual life and its food, He now discu es His instruction or teaching, which, as mentioned above, is nec…