After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, Jesus' brothers said to him, "Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him.
John 7:19 "Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
John 7:25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?"
Matthew 12:14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. (also Mark 3:6)
Psalm 71:10 For my enemies speak against me; those who wait to kill me conspire together.
Matthew 26:3-4 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.
John 5:18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Jesus' brothers said to him
Matthew 12:46 While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.
even his own brothers did not believe in him
Psalm 69:8 I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother's children; ...
Mark 3:21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
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