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Go ye up unto this feast; let not my forbearance to go up hinder your going up according to the law.
I go not up yet unto this feast; I have some particular reasons why as yet I will not go to be there at the beginning of it.
For my time is not yet full come; I know my time to go, when it will be most safe and proper for me. I shall be there some time during the feast, but my time is not yet come; I shall not be there at the beginning of it. It appeareth that he came not into the temple till about the middle of it, Joh_7:14, which was three or four days after it was began, for it held seven days, Lev_23:34. Or his time was not come, because he designed to go very privately without any notice taken of his coming; which must have been, if he had at that time gone up with his kindred and acquaintance.