5For neither did his brethren believe in him.
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And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. …
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. …
But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here, I. The reason given why Christ spent more of his time in Galilee than in Judea (John 7:1): because the Jews , the people in Judea and Jerusalem, sought to kill him , for curing the impotent man on the sabbath day, John 5:16. They thought to be the death of him, either by a popular tumult or by a legal prosecution, in consideration of which he kept at a distance in another part of the…
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