After his brothers left to go to the festival, Jesus also went, but not openly—he stayed out of sight.
Lord, I love your house, the place where you live in your glory.
I am pleased to do your will, my God—your Law guides my mind.”
So smart people keep quiet in such evil times.
Look, I'm sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
While he was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers arrived and stood outside, wanting to talk to him.
“Please do so, because it's good for us to do what God says is right,” Jesus told him. So John agreed to do it.
When Jesus' family heard about it, they came to take him away, saying, “He's lost his senses!”
So Jesus did not travel openly among the Jews but went to a town called Ephraim in the region near the desert and stayed there with his disciples.
his brothers told him, “You ought to leave and go to Judea so your followers will be able to see what miracles you can do.
For even his own brothers really didn't believe in him.
After saying this he stayed behind in Galilee.
But at the appropriate time God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the rule of law,