Amplified Bible

John 7:5-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)

5. For [even] His brothers did not believe in or adhere to or trust in or rely on Him either.

6. Whereupon Jesus said to them, My time (opportunity) has not come yet; but any time is suitable for you and your opportunity is ready any time [is always here].

7. The world cannot [be expected to] hate you, but it does hate Me because I denounce it for its wicked works and reveal that its doings are evil.

8. Go to the Feast yourselves. I am not [yet] going up to the Festival, because My time is not ripe. [My term is not yet completed; it is not time for Me to go.]

9. Having said these things to them, He stayed behind in Galilee.

10. But afterward, when His brothers had gone up to the Feast, He went up also, not publicly [not with a caravan], but by Himself quietly and as if He did not wish to be observed.

11. Therefore the Jews kept looking for Him at the Feast and asking, Where can He be? [Where is that Fellow?]

12. And there was among the mass of the people much whispered discussion and hot disputing about Him. Some were saying, He is good! [He is a good Man!] Others said, No, He misleads and deceives the people [gives them false ideas]!

13. But no one dared speak out boldly about Him for fear of [the leaders of] the Jews.