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Contemporary English Version

John 7:6

Jesus answered, "My time hasn't yet come, but your time is always here.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jerusalem;   Jesus, the Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Hate;   World;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - James;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Suffering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Feasts;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hour;   John, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Activity;   Brethren of the Lord (2);   Dates (2);   Divinity of Christ;   Family (Jesus);   Foresight;   Hour;   Jude, the Lord's Brother;   Logos;   Mental Characteristics;   Prudence;   Time;   Time (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacles feast of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus said to them, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you to go.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then Iesus sayd vnto them: My tyme is not yet come youre tyme is all waye redy.
Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
International Standard Version
Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.ready">[fn]John 2:4;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
So Jesus said to them, "My time is not yet here, but your time is always ready.
New Century Version
Jesus said to his brothers, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you.
Update Bible Version
Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Jesus said to them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready.
English Standard Version
Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
World English Bible
Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth;
Weymouth's New Testament
"My time," replied Jesus, "has not yet come, but for you any time is suitable.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Jhesus seith to hem, My tyme cam not yit, but youre tyme is euermore redi.
English Revised Version
Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is alway ready.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore Jesus told them, "Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
Amplified Bible
So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you.
American Standard Version
Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
Bible in Basic English
Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua said to them, "My time has not yet come; but for you, any time is right.
Darby Translation
Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.
Etheridge Translation
Jeshu saith to them, My time until now cometh not, but your time is always ready.
Murdock Translation
Jesus said to them: My time hath not yet come: but your time is always ready.
King James Version (1611)
Then Iesus said vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
New Living Translation
Jesus replied, "Now is not the right time for me to go, but you can go anytime.
New Life Bible
Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come. But any time is good for you.
New Revised Standard
Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Iesus saide vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway readie.
George Lamsa Translation
Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come; but your time is always ready.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jesus, therefore, saith unto them - My season, not yet, is here; but, your season, at anytime, is ready:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Iesus sayde vnto them, My tyme is not yet come: but your tyme is alway redy.
Good News Translation
Jesus said to them, "The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you.
Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus told them, “My time
King James Version
Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
Lexham English Bible
So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
Literal Translation
Then Jesus said to them, My time is not yet here, but your time is always ready.
Young's Literal Translation
Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde Iesus vnto them: My tyme is not yet come, but youre tyme is allwaye ready.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but Jesus said to them, my time is not yet come: but any time is equally proper for you.
THE MESSAGE
Jesus came back at them, "Don't crowd me. This isn't my time. It's your time—it's always your time; you have nothing to lose. The world has nothing against you, but it's up in arms against me. It's against me because I expose the evil behind its pretensions. You go ahead, go up to the Feast. Don't wait for me. I'm not ready. It's not the right time for me."
New English Translation
So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!
New King James Version
Then Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus replied, "My time to go to Judea isn't right now, but you can leave if you want to.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Jesus said to them, "My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Jesus *said to them, "My time is not yet here, but your time is always here.

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

My time: John 7:8, John 7:30, John 2:4, John 8:20, John 13:1, John 17:1, Psalms 102:13, Ecclesiastes 3:1-15, Acts 1:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:41 - Why have Psalms 31:15 - My times Psalms 75:2 - receive the congregation Matthew 26:18 - My time Luke 12:50 - and 1 John 4:5 - are

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was five hundred years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 8:13
Noah was now six hundred one years old. And by the first day of that year, almost all the water had gone away. Noah made an opening in the roof of the boat and saw that the ground was getting dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Jesus said unto them,.... In answer to their solicitations and arguments used with him, to go up to the feast:

my time is not yet come; meaning, not the time of his death, or of his exaltation and glorification, or of the showing of himself forth unto the world; though all this was true; but of his going up to this feast; as appears from John 7:8;

but your time is always ready; intimating, they might go at any time; their lives were not in any danger, as his was, and had nothing to consult about the preservation of them; it was all one to them when they went up, whether before the feast, that they might be ready for it, or at the beginning, middle, or end of it, as to any notice that would be taken of them, unless they should be guilty of an omission of their duty; but not on any other account; which was not his case.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My time ... - The proper time for my going up to the feast. We know not why it was not yet a proper time for him to go. It might be because if he went then, in their company, while multitudes were going, it would have too much the appearance of parade and ostentation; it might excite too much notice, and be more likely to expose him to the envy and opposition of the rulers.

Your time ... - It makes no difference to you when you go up. Your going will excite no tumult or opposition; it will not attract attention, and will not endanger your lives. Jesus therefore chose to go up more privately, and to remain until the multitude had gone. They commonly traveled to those feasts in large companies, made up of most of the families in the neighborhood. See the notes at Luke 2:44.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:6. My time is not yet come — It is probable our Lord meant no more than this, that he had some business to transact before he could go to Jerusalem; but his brethren, having nothing to hinder them might set off immediately. Others think he speaks of his passion: My time of suffering is not yet come: as ye are still in friendship with the world, ye need not be under any apprehension of danger: ye may go when ye please. The first sense I think is the best.


 
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