John 7:1

The controversy with His brethren

1. After these things The interval is again vague (see introductory note to chap. 6); but comparing John 4:4 with John 7:2 we see that it covers about five months, the interval between the Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles.

walked in Galilee To this ministry in Galilee, of which S. John tells us nothing, most of the incidents narrated Matthew 14:34 to Matthew 18:35 belong. The tenses here are all imperfects, implying continued action.

he would not walk in Jewry From this we understand that He did not go up to Jerusalem for the Passover mentioned John 6:4. -Jewry" is found here in all the English versions excepting Wiclif's; it was common in the earlier translations. But in the A. V. it has been retained (probably by an oversight) only here, Luke 23:5, and Daniel 5:13: elsewhere Judæa has been substituted. In Daniel 5:13 the same word is translated both -Jewry" and -Judah!" Comp. the Prayer Book version of Psalms 76:1.