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Not a Contradiction
When Jesus said, "I am not going up to this feast," and then went later, it was not a contradiction. Commentators clarify he was rejecting his brothers' specific plan for a grand, public procession. He refused to go with them, at that moment, in that manner. Instead, he went up later, privately, to avoid a spectacle and his enemies.
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Albert Barnes
On John 7:8
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On John 7:8
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…
Charles Ellicott
On John 7:8
19th Century
Bishop
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…
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 7:6–8
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 7:8
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…
John Gill
On John 7:8
17th Century
Pastor
Go we up unto this feast
Suggesting, that he would not have them stay for him, or hinder themselves on his account: …
Matthew Henry
On John 7:1–13
17th Century
Minister
The brothers or kinsmen of Jesus were disgusted when they found there was no prospect of worldly advantages from him. Ungodly men sometimes underta…