Bible Strands
John 7:6
Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus speaks to his brothers, who have urged him to teach publicly at the Feast of Tabernacles and who do not believe in him (v. 5).
The words — καιρός (kairos) carries the sense of an appointed, decisive moment rather than a duration; the verse contrasts their kairos, always at hand, with his, which has not yet arrived.
The thread — "My hour has not yet come" recurs in John 2:4 and John 7:30, where it is the stated reason no one could lay hands on Jesus. John 7:8 is the immediate continuation of the same statement.
Why it lands — It asks the reader to hold two clocks at once: the world's urgency and the one whose timing answers to something other than public demand. It is not evasion; it is a claim of sovereignty over the moment itself.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
Cross-references
- John 7:8 Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
- John 2:4 “Woman, what is that to you and to Me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
- John 7:30 So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
- John 17:1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
- John 13:1 It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- John 8:20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
- Matthew 26:18 He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’”
- Acts 1:7 Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Psalms 102:13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: