Matthew Poole and continuators on John 7:8

8 Go ye up unto this feast : I go not up yet unto this feast , for my time is not yet full come .

Let not my forbearance to go up, hinder your going up according to the Law.

I have some particular reasons, why as yet I will not go to be there at the beginning of it.

I know my time to go, when it will be most safe and proper for me. I shall be there some time during the Feast, but my time is not yet come. I shall not be there at the beginning of it; v. 14. it appeareth that he came not into the Temple till about the middle of it, which was three or four days after it was began, for it held seven days, Lev. 23.33, 34. Or his time was not come, because he designed to go very privately without any notice taken of his coming; which must have been, if he had at that time gone up with his Kindred and Acquaintance.

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