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John 7:6

John 7:6
Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The world cannot hate you,.... Because they were of the world, belonged to it; they were like unto it, and every like loves its like; and they were the world's own, and therefore instead of being…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

My time ... - The proper time for my going up to the feast. We know not why it was not yet a proper time for him to go. It might be because if he went then, in their company, while multitudes were…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

My time is not yet come - It is probable our Lord meant no more than this, that he had some business to transact before he could go to Jerusalem; but his brethren, having nothing to hinder them might…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

John 7:1-13

We have here, I. The reason given why Christ spent more of his time in Galilee than in Judea (Joh 7:1): because the Jews, the people in Judea and Jerusalem, sought to kill him, for curing the impotent…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Then Jesus said Better, Jesus therefore saith.

My time is not yet come i.e. My time for manifesting Myself to the world; with special reference to the Passion. It is inadequate to interpret it of the…