Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
John 7:9
He let them take their journey to Jerusalem to the feast without him, and himself still abode in Galilee.
He let them take their journey to Jerusalem to the feast without him, and himself still abode in Galilee.
JOHN 7:9 auvto,j {B} The reading auvto,j, supported by î66 a D* W ¦1 565 _al,_ is to be preferred as congruent with Johannine style. Copyists, however, apparently regarded it as superfluous and alte...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. My Time is not Yet Come. (John 7:1 .)_ 2. Departure from Galilee; Sought by the Jews. (John 7:10 .) 3. In the Temple Teaching. (John 7:14 .) 4. Opposition to Him. ...
JOHN 7. THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. John 7:1. The Remonstrance of the Brethren. This incident is often now used to support the view that in the original draft of the gospel no visit to Jerusalem before...
GO YE... I GO NOT UP YET TO THIS FEAST. A more literal translation is: "I am not now going to this feast." He does not use the future but the present tense. We cannot be certain whether he had yet de...
NOT MAN'S TIME BUT GOD'S (John 7:1-9)...
After these things Jesus moved about in Galilee, for he did not wish to move about in Judaea, because the Jews were out to kill him. The festival of the Jews which is called the Festival of Tabernacle...
WORDS. things. ABODE. See note on John 1:32,...
_he abode still in Galilee_ This in conjunction with John 7:1 shews that S. John is quite aware that Galilee is the main scene of Christ's ministry, as the Synoptists represent. The gaps in his narrat...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
9. Once more we see (John 7:1; John 1:43; John 2:1; John 2:12; John 4:2;...
THE CONTROVERSY WITH HIS BRETHREN...
VER 9. WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE WORDS TO THEM, HE ABODE STILL IN GALILEE. 10. BUT WHEN HIS BRETHREN WERE GONE UP, THEN WENT HE ALSO UP TO THE FEAST, NOT OPENLY, BUT AS IT WERE IN SECRET. 11. THEN THE JE...
_JESUS ATTENDED THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES -- JOHN 7:1-24:_ Jesus kept away from the Jews who were seeking to kill Him by remaining in Galilee. The time came for the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus quietly...
ΕΙΠΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Aor._ предполагает логически предшествующее действие, ΈΜΕΙΝΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) оставаться....
GO YE UP UNTO THIS FEAST, &C.— "Repair ye therefore unto Jerusalem as soon as you please, that you may be there at the beginning of the feast: I shall not keep you company, nor indeed go yet awhile; f...
ADVICE OF HIS UNBELIEVING BRETHREN _Text 7:1-9_ 1 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the feast of the Jews,...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 7:1-13 Below we give a rough Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— John 7 begins a new section of this fourth Gospel. Our Lord’s ministry in Galile...
When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. WHEN ('AND WHEN') HE HAD SAID THESE WORDS UNTO THEM, HE ABODE STILL IN GALILEE....
56 Just as Nicodemus failed to see the figure when our Lord spoke to him about the new birth, so now His followers fail to understand when He speaks of feeding on His flesh and blood. There is a subtl...
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JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 JESUS AND HIS BROTHERS 7:1-9 V1 After this, Jesus stayed in *Galilee. He travelled from village to village. He decide...
HE ABODE STILL IN GALILEE. — We find Him in Jerusalem between the 16th and 20th of Tishri (John 7:14), and He could not therefore have remained behind them more than three or four days. We have no rec...
CHAPTER 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of...
He therefore remained where He was....
_The circumstances of His visit to Jerusalem_....
KNOWN BY OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD JESUS John 7:1-13 This feast was celebrated in October. Six entire months had elapsed between this and the preceding chapter. During the Feast of Tabernacles the people d...
So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two year...
FINAL DEPARTURE FROM GALILEE John 7:2-10. _“And the feast of the Jews, called Tabernacles, was nigh.”_ (Leviticus 23:34.) This great annual solemnity was held in September, commemorative of their sojo...
“ _Having said this to them he remained in Galilee._ 10. _But when his brethren had gone up to the feast_, _then he also went up himself, not openly, but as it were in secret._ ” The ninth verse signi...
THIRD SECTION: 7:1-8:59. THE STRIFE AT ITS HIGHEST STAGE OF INTENSITY AT JERUSALEM. Seven months had elapsed without any appearance of Jesus at Jerusalem. The exasperation of the rulers, whose murdero...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 1-13. 1. The history now moves forward over a period of six months to the Feast of Tabernacles in October. Nothing can be more manifest than the combinati...
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. (2) Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. (3) His brethren therefore said unt...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
9._He remained in Galilee. _The Evangelist here places before our eyes the cousins of our Lord Jesus Christ, (182) who, in compliance with ordinary customs, pretend to worship God, but yet are on frie...
In chapter 7 His brethren after the flesh, still sunk in unbelief, would have Him shew Himself to the world, if He did these great things; but the time for this was not yet come. At the fulfilment of...
WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE WORDS UNTO THEM,.... Had exhorted them to go up to the feast, and told them that he should not go yet, and the reason of it: HE ABODE [STILL] IN GALILEE; and went not up with h...
When he had said these words unto them, he abode _still_ in Galilee. Ver. 9. _He abode still in Galilee_] Which he needed not to have done, could he but have complied with the world, as his kinsmen d...
_Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand_ Instituted in commemoration of the Israelites dwelling in tents in the wilderness, and celebrated in booths erected for that purpose, with great solemn...
WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE WORDS UNTO THEM, HE ABODE STILL IN GALILEE. Jesus refused to listen to the proposals of His brothers. His time for revealing Himself publicly, especially in the manner which the...
The refusal of Jesus:...
HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lowly...
1-13 The brethren or kinsmen of Jesus were disgusted, when they found there was no prospect of worldly advantages from him. Ungodly men sometimes undertake to counsel those employed in the work of Go...
John 7:9 When G1161 said G2036 (G5631) things G5023 them G846 remained G3306 (G5656) in G1722 Galilee...
‘You go up to the Feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.' And having said these things to them he remained dwelling in Galilee.' So He told His brothers to go t...
JESUS IN DANGER (JOHN 7:1). It is now made clear that at this stage Jesus was under constant threat of death from the authorities in Judea and Jerusalem, so much so that He was unable to go there open...
The same line of thought as that which we have found in the two previous Chapter s is continued in that before us. He who is the Fulfiller of the Sabbath and of the Passover is the Fulfiller also of t...
John 7:9. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE THINGS UNTO THEM HE ABODE STILL IN GALILEE. How long, we are not informed. As, however, it would seem that His brothers were on the point of setting out for Jerusa...
HE ABODE STILL IN GALILEE (εμεινεν εν τη Γαλιλαια). No "still" (ετ) in the Greek text. The constative aorist active indicative εμεινεν covers a period of some days....
John 7:1. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. His brethren therefore said u...
CONTENTS: Jesus urged to go to the feast. His final departure from Galilee. Jesus at the feast of tabernacles. Prophecy concerning the Holy Spirit. CHARACTERS: God. Jesus, Holy Spirit, disciples, bro...
John 7:1. _He would not walk in Jewry,_ or Judea, _because the jews sought to kill him._ Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same pl...
_After these things Jesus walked in Galilee._ THE SITUATION SURVEYED I. THE SCENE IN GALILEE: the attitude of Christ’s brethren. 1. The counsel they offered. That Christ should repair to the centre...
CHAPTER 7 _But after this Jesus walked in Galilee_, &c. Not immediately, but about six months after. The incidents of the former chapter took place in March, the feast of tabernacles was in September....
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:1. JEWRY.—_i.e._ Judæa. KILL HIM.—See John 5:18. John 7:2. FEAST OF TABERNACLES.—Fifteenth day of seventh month, Tisri (September–October). See Homiletic Notes...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of angry...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of the gospel according to John. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him...