John 7:5

Contemporary English Version

Even Jesus' own brothers had not yet become his followers.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus' brothers said this because even they did not believe in him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For as yet his brethre beleved not in him.

Hebrew Names Version
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

International Standard Version
For not even his brothers believed in him.Mark 3:21;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
For not even His brothers believed in Him.

New Century Version
(Even Jesus' brothers did not believe in him.)

Update Bible Version
For even his brothers did not believe on him.

Webster's Bible Translation
(For neither did his brethren believe in him.)

English Standard Version
For not even his brothers believed in him.

World English Bible
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
(For neither did his brethren believe on him.) Jesus saith to them, My time is not yet come: your time is always ready.

Weymouth's New Testament
For even His brothers were not believers in Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For nether hise britheren bileueden in hym.

English Revised Version
For even his brethren did not believe on him.

Berean Standard Bible
For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.

Amplified Bible
For not even His brothers believed in Him.

American Standard Version
For even his brethren did not believe on him.

Bible in Basic English
For even his brothers had no belief in him.

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

Darby Translation
for neither did his brethren believe on him.

Etheridge Translation
For neither did his brethren believe in him, in Jeshu.

Murdock Translation
For even his brothers did not believe in Jesus.

King James Version (1611)
For neither did his brethren beleeue in him.

New Living Translation
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

New Life Bible
Not even His brothers were putting their trust in Him.

New Revised Standard
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Geneva Bible (1587)
For as yet his brethren beleeued not in him.

George Lamsa Translation
For not even his own brothers believed in Jesus.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, not even his brethren, were believing on him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

Revised Standard Version
For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For his brethren beleued not in hym.

Good News Translation
(Not even his brothers believed in him.)

Christian Standard Bible®
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

King James Version
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

Lexham English Bible
(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Literal Translation
For His brothers did not believe into Him.

Young's Literal Translation
for not even were his brethren believing in him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For his awne brethren also beleued not in him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for even his brethren did not believe in him.

New English Translation
(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

New King James Version
For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Obviously his brothers didn't even believe in who he was at this time.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

Contextual Overview

¹ Jesus decided to leave Judea and to start going through Galilee because the Jewish leaders of the people wanted to kill him. ² It was almost time for the Festival of Shelters, ³ and Jesus' brothers said to him, "Why don't you go to Judea? Then your disciples can see what you are doing. ⁴ No one does anything in secret, if they want others to know about them. So let the world know what you are doing!" ⁵ Even Jesus' own brothers had not yet become his followers. ⁶ Jesus answered, "My time hasn't yet come, but your time is always here. ⁷ The people of this world cannot hate you. They hate me, because I tell them that they do evil things. ⁸ Go on to the festival. My time hasn't yet come, and I am not going." ⁹ Jesus said this and stayed on in Galilee. ¹⁰ After Jesus' brothers had gone to the festival, he went secretly, without telling anyone.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 1:11-13, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Mark 3:21

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:1 - Miriam 2 Samuel 19:41 - Why have Psalms 69:8 - become Jeremiah 12:6 - thy brethren Matthew 12:46 - his John 7:3 - brethren

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything the Lord told him to do.

Exodus 39:32
So the people of Israel finished making everything the Lord had told Moses to make.

Exodus 40:16
Moses followed the Lord 's instructions.

Psalms 119:6
Thinking about your commands will keep me from doing some foolish thing.

Matthew 3:15
Jesus answered, "For now this is how it should be, because we must do all that God wants us to do." Then John agreed.

Luke 8:21
Jesus answered, "My mother and my brothers are those people who hear and obey God's message."

John 2:5
Mary then said to the servants, "Do whatever Jesus tells you to do."

John 13:17
You know these things, and God will bless you, if you do them.

Philippians 2:8
Christ was humble. He obeyed God and even died on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Jesus is God's own Son, but still he had to suffer before he could learn what it really means to obey God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For neither did his brethren believe in him. At first they might take to him, and embrace him as the Messiah, and expect he would set up a temporal kingdom; in which they might hope, on account of their relation to him, according to the flesh to enjoy great honours and privileges; but finding that he was not inclined to anything of that nature, and talked in a quite different way, they grew sick of him, and rejected him, as the Messiah; so, little regard is to be had, or confidence placed, in carnal descent from, or alliance to the best of men; as to Abraham, or any other true believer, if they have not the same grace, or the same faith as such have; and which comes not by blood, or natural generation, but by the free favour of God; for it matters not, if men have known Christ, or have been allied to him after the flesh, unless they are new creatures in him; they may be the one, and not the other; even the carnal brethren of Christ, and yet not believers in him; and it is only such who are so in a spiritual sense, that are regarded by him, Matthew 12:49.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For there is no man ... - The brethren of Jesus supposed that he was influenced as others are. As it is a common thing among men to seek popularity, so they supposed that he would also seek it; and as a great multitude would be assembled at Jerusalem at this feast, they supposed it would be a favorable time to make himself known. What follows shows that this was said, probably, not in sincerity, but in derision; and to the other sufferings of our Lord was to be added, what is so common to Christians, derision from his relatives and friends on account of his pretensions. If our Saviour was derided, we also may expect to be by our relatives; and, having his example, we should be content to bear it.

If thou do ... - It appears from this that they did not really believe that he performed miracles; or, if they did believe it, they did not suppose that he was the Christ. Yet it seems hardly credible that they could suppose that his miracles were real, and yet not admit that he was the Messiah. Besides, there is no evidence that these relatives had been present at any of his miracles, and all that they knew of them might have been from report. See the notes at Mark 3:21. On the word brethren in John 7:5, see the Matthew 13:55 note, and Galatians 1:19 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:5. Neither did his brethren believe in him. — They did not receive him as the promised Messiah; but, having seen so many of his miracles, they could not but consider him as an eminent prophet. They supposed that, if he were the Messiah, he would wish to manifest himself as such to the world; and, because he did not do so, they did not believe that he was the salvation of Israel.