Good News Bible

John 7:5-12 Good News Bible (GNB)

5. (Not even his brothers believed in him.)

6. Jesus said to them, “The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you.

7. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

8. You go on to the festival. I am not going to this festival, because the right time has not come for me.”

9. He said this, and then stayed on in Galilee.

10. After his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus also went; however, he did not go openly, but secretly.

11. The Jewish authorities were looking for him at the festival. “Where is he?” they asked.

12. There was much whispering about him in the crowd. “He is a good man,” some people said. “No,” others said, “he is misleading the people.”