‘Jesus therefore says to them, ‘My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.'

But what they failed to realise was that Jesus' life was directed by God. ‘My time has not yet come', He declared. Others were free to do what they liked, ‘your time is always here', but not He. As He had said to His mother earlier (John 2:4), He must not be rushed into acting before the time. His times were in God's hands. Jesus was still in firm control of His destiny. The word used here for ‘time' is a different one than that used elsewhere in the Gospel. It is not referring to His time of destiny.

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