8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.



Ver. 8. I go not up yet] q.d. I will ere long: lest haply they should think that he disliked the public services, and would not come at them, because of the manifold corruptions that were then crept into them. All which notwithstanding, Christ never separated, nor commanded others so to do, but the contrary: "Go show thyself to the priest," Mat_8:4; "The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ chair; hear them," Mat_23:2. It is noted as a great fault in Eli’s time, that men "abhorred the offering of the Lord," though the sin of the priests was very great before the Lord, and all was out of order; yet in abhorring the sacrifice, they "transgressed, even to a cry," 1Sa_2:17.