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Joh 7:8. οὐκ, not) I do not now go up with you (Joh 7:10, When His brethren were gone up, then went He also up), as you advise, that I may be seen in the highway and in the city. For which reason He abode [still in Galilee], Joh 7:9. Ἀναβαίνω, I go up, is to be taken strictly in the present. Comp. οὐκ, not [= not yet], at Mat 11:11 [οὐκ ἐγήγερται-μείζων Ἰωάννου], where also the past tense ought to be understood in its strict sense. So σὐ, not, for οὔπω, not yet, Mar 7:18, “Are ye so without understanding? Do ye not (yet) perceive that,” etc.; οὐ νοεῖτε ὅτι: comp. Mat 15:17 [where Beng. with Rec. Text reads οὔπω. But [165][166][167] read Οὐ ΝΟΕῖΤΕ ὍΤΙ]. He who was not present on the first day of the feast, was likely to be thought not present at all. The Lord afterwards went up to the feast, but as it were incognito, and not so much to the feast, as to the temple; Joh 7:10, “not openly, but as it were in secret;” 14, “Jesus went up into the temple and taught.” There was now but one going up, in the proper sense, set before the Lord, namely, that at the passover of His passion: it is concerning this that He speaks in an enigmatical way.-ὁ καιρός, time [season]) Wisdom observes carefully the [right] time. His speech at Joh 7:6, “My time is not yet come,” refers to His time for going up to the feast; but in this verse, as it seems, it refers to His time of suffering: comp. Joh 5:30, “No man laid hands on Him, because His hour was not yet come.” This journey to the Feast of Tabernacles was His last journev but one to Jerusalem.
[165] the Vatican MS., 1209: in Vat. Iibr., Rome: fourth cent.: O. and N. Test. def.
[166] Bezæ, or Cantabrig.: Univ. libr., Cambridge: fifth cent.: publ. by Kipling, 1793: Gospels, Acts, and some Epp. def.
[167] Dubliniensis rescr.: Trin. Coll., Dublin: Matthew def.: sixth cent.: publ. by Barrett, 1801.