John 7:3

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So Jesus’ brothers advised him,“Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

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  • Matt 12:46 : 46 Jesus’ True Family While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.
  • John 7:5 : 5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)
  • John 7:10 : 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.
  • Acts 2:14 : 14 Peter’s Address on the Day of Pentecost But Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them:“You men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, know this and listen carefully to what I say.
  • Matt 22:16-17 : 16 They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying,“Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You do not court anyone’s favor because you show no partiality. 17 Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
  • Mark 3:31 : 31 Jesus’ True Family Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.
  • Luke 8:19 : 19 Jesus’ True Family Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.
  • Gen 37:5-9 : 5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more. 6 He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had: 7 There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!” 8 Then his brothers asked him,“Do you really think you will rule over us or have dominion over us?” They hated him even more because of his dream and because of what he said. 9 Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers.“Look,” he said.“I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying,“What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?” 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.
  • Gen 37:20 : 20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 When David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said,“Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the wilderness? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!”
  • Jer 12:6 : 6 As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

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  • John 7:4-11
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    4For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

    5(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

    6So Jesus replied,“My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

    8You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

    9When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

    10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

    11So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking,“Where is he?”

  • John 11:7-8
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    7Then after this, he said to his disciples,“Let us go to Judea again.”

    8The disciples replied,“Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”

  • John 4:3
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    3he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

  • John 2:12-13
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    12Cleansing the Temple After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

    13Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • John 7:1-2
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    1The Feast of Shelters After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

    2Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near.

  • Mark 3:7
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    7Crowds by the Sea Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,

  • Luke 7:17-18
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    17This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

    18Jesus and John the Baptist John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples

  • John 3:21-22
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    21But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

    22Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • Mark 3:31-32
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    31Jesus’ True Family Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

    32A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

  • John 7:35-36
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    35Then the Jewish leaders said to one another,“Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

    36What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

  • John 4:43
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    43Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.

  • John 4:45
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    45So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast(for they themselves had gone to the feast).

  • Mark 6:1
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    1Rejection at Nazareth Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

  • Luke 8:19-20
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    19Jesus’ True Family Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

    20So he was told,“Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

  • John 6:30
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    30So they said to him,“Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

  • Matt 12:46-47
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    46Jesus’ True Family While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.

    47Someone told him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.”

  • John 3:26
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    26So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

  • John 4:8
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    8(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

  • Matt 11:4
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    4Jesus answered them,“Go tell John what you hear and see:

  • John 10:40
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    40Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

  • John 6:28
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    28So then they said to him,“What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?”

  • Matt 13:56
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    56And aren’t all his sisters here with us? So where did he get all this?”

  • Mark 1:45
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    45But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

  • John 14:31
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    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 11:54
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    54Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

  • John 6:1
    69%

    1The Feeding of the Five Thousand After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee(also called the Sea of Tiberias).

  • John 12:9
    69%

    9Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

  • Mark 6:3
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    3Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.

  • John 7:13-14
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    13However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

    14Teaching in the Temple When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

  • John 5:1
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    1Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • John 7:25
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    25Questions About Jesus’ Identity Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say,“Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

  • John 4:1
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    1Departure From Judea Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

  • John 16:17
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    17Then some of his disciples said to one another,“What is the meaning of what he is saying,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and,‘because I am going to the Father’?”