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My time is not yet come (ho kairos ho emos oupō parestin). Only use with Joh 7:8 of kairos in this Gospel, elsewhere chronos (Joh 5:6) or more often hōra (Joh 2:4) “the predestined hour” (Bernard). Here kairos is the fitting or proper occasion for Christ’s manifesting himself publicly to the authorities as Messiah as in Joh 7:8. At the feast of tabernacles Jesus did make such public claims (Joh 7:29, Joh 7:33; Joh 8:12, Joh 8:28, Joh 8:38, Joh 8:42, Joh 8:58). Parestin is present active indicative of pareimi, old compound, to be by, to be present. The brothers of Jesus had the regular Jewish obligation to go up to the feast, but the precise day was a matter of indifference to them.