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

John 7:6

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.

  • Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

  • Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

  • These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

  • Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

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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