John 7:6

Plain English Version

Jesus said, “It’s not yet the right time for me to go to Jerusalem. But you can go any time.

Cross References

John 13:1

It was just before the Jewish Passover ceremony, and Jesus and his followers sat down to eat together. Jesus knew that it was nearly time for him to leave this world and go back to his father. While he was in the world, he always showed his followers that he loved them. And he kept on loving them right to the end of his time on earth. Before this time, the devil, the boss over the bad spirits, gave one of Jesus’s followers the idea of turning against Jesus. That follower’s name was Judas. He was the son of a man called Simon Iscariot. Jesus and his followers were sitting at the table,

John 17:1

After Jesus finished telling them all those things, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come for me to finish the job you sent me to do. I want you to show people that I am really great and powerful, so that people will look at me, and they will see that you are really great and powerful too, and then they will respect both you and me.

John 2:4

Jesus said to her, “Why are you asking me to do that? It is not the right time yet for me to show everyone who I am.”

John 7:30

Some of the people wanted to grab Jesus straight away, and take him to court, so the judge might say he has to die. But it wasn’t the right time yet for Jesus to die, so God stopped them, and they didn’t touch him.

John 7:8

You can go to the ceremony, but I’m not going now. It’s not yet the right time for me to go to Jerusalem.”

John 8:20

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in God’s ceremony house, near the money box. The people used to put money into that box to give it to God. The Pharisee mob wanted to grab him and kill him, but it was not the right time yet for him to die, so God stopped them, and nobody touched him.

Acts 1:7

Jesus said to them, “My father controls everything. He knows the time that things will happen. You don’t need to know the time.