MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME!

READ JOHN 7:3-11

3-9) These brothers are Jesus' actual brothers born to Mary and Joseph (Matt. 12:46; 13:55-56) Why did the brothers want Jesus to go to Jerusalem? To publicly show Himself off with more signs and wonders? Where they truely believing in Him as Savior or as an earthly king who would rally the people to overthrow the Roman Government? The answer was in Jesus' response. His time has not yet come. He was looking for the cross, while they were looking at the world. Jesus came to expose the evil of the world and to bring the way of salvation from it.

10-11) Jesus does go to Jerusalem, but in secret. "In secret" (krypto) means privately or in private. When Jesus does get to Jerusalem (v.14), he makes no attempt to remain hidden (in fact he makes himself quite conspicuous). This suggests the phrase "in secret" here does not mean "covertly," but that Jesus did not accompany the main body of pilgrims going to Jerusalem for the feast perhaps to avoid a premature "triumphal entry" scene. (Information taken from the Bible Knowledge Key Word Study)
FATHER, WHAT A BLESSING TO HAVE A SAVIOR WHO IS NOT INTERESTED IN SATISFING THE EVIL OF THE WORLD, BUT IN BEING OBEDIENT TO YOU. AMEN