Jesus and His Brothers Before the Feast

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After this, Yeshua traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y’hudah because the Judeans were out to kill him.

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But the festival of Sukkot in Y’hudah was near;

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so his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go into Y’hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;

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for no one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you’re doing these things, show yourself to the world!”

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(His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.)

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Yeshua said to them, “My time has not yet come; but for you, any time is right.

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The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are.

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You, go on up to the festival; as for me, I am not going up to this festival now, because the right time for me has not yet come.”

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Having said this, he stayed on in the Galil.

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But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he too went up, not publicly but in secret.