John 7:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you.

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  • John 7:8 : 8 Go you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.
  • John 2:4 : 4 Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.
  • John 7:30 : 30 Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.
  • John 13:1 : 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.
  • John 17:1 : 1 Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:
  • John 8:20 : 20 Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.
  • Matt 26:18 : 18 And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.
  • Eccl 3:1-9 : 1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun. 2 A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting; 3 A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up; 4 A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing; 5 A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing; 6 A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away; 7 A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk; 8 A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace. 9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does? 10 I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man. 11 He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last. 12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him. 13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God. 14 I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him. 15 Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.
  • Ps 102:13 : 13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
  • Acts 1:7 : 7 And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 7:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

    8Go you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.

    9Having said these things to them, he still kept in Galilee.

  • John 7:30
    78%

    30Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.

  • John 8:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    20Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.

    21Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

  • John 2:4
    74%

    4Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.

  • John 7:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

    4Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.

    5For even his brothers had no belief in him.

  • Acts 1:6-7
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    72%

    6So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel?

    7And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

  • John 7:16
    71%

    16Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

  • John 9:4
    71%

    4While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.

  • John 7:33-34
    2 verses
    70%

    33Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.

    34You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come.

  • John 7:36
    70%

    36What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

  • John 5:17
    70%

    17But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

  • Mark 14:7
    69%

    7The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.

  • Mark 13:33
    69%

    33Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

  • Luke 12:40
    69%

    40So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

  • John 12:23
    69%

    23And Jesus said to them in answer, The hour of the glory of the Son of man has come.

  • John 18:36
    68%

    36Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.

  • John 5:38-40
    3 verses
    68%

    38And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

    39You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

    40And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

  • John 12:8
    68%

    8The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

  • Matt 24:44
    68%

    44Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

  • Heb 10:37
    67%

    37In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

  • John 7:27-28
    2 verses
    67%

    27However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.

    28Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

  • John 13:33
    67%

    33My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

  • John 6:65
    67%

    65And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

  • John 16:18
    67%

    18So they said again and again, What is this he is saying, A little time? His words are not clear to us.

  • John 7:24-25
    2 verses
    67%

    24Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

    25Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is desired?

  • John 8:23
    67%

    23And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • John 12:35
    67%

    35Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

  • John 14:30
    67%

    30After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

  • Luke 12:56
    67%

    56O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

  • Matt 25:13
    67%

    13Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.

  • John 12:27
    67%

    27Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.

  • John 16:12
    67%

    12I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

  • John 4:34
    67%

    34Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

  • John 16:4
    67%

    4I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.

  • John 12:30
    66%

    30Jesus said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you.

  • Matt 26:5
    66%

    5But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.

  • John 8:26
    66%

    26I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

  • Matt 26:11
    66%

    11For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

  • John 8:14
    66%

    14Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.