Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

There are three major Jewish feasts that happen every year, and during those feasts that people travel to Jerusalem from wherever they live and stay for at least a week in most

scenarios. Depending on where they live, it could be a two-week trip, meaning they would spend

15 weeks per year traveling to and from Jerusalem and being there for feasts. That's nearly

four months. I don't know where they work, but I want that kind of vacation package. Jesus lives

in Copernum, so he's only about 100 miles away, which would take a few days on foot. When it comes time to pack up and head to Jerusalem, his brothers try to convince him that he should publicly demonstrate his powers in front of all the people who'll be in town for the holiday. But their words are almost certainly mocking him, because verse 5 says they don't believe in him. In verse 7, Jesus confirms that they're part of the world, not the kingdom.

Here's how we know this.

He says the world can't hate them.

Those who don't believe in and submit to Christ belong to the world.

And the world doesn't hate itself.

Jesus addresses this idea of the world's love and hatred again in John 15.

And it helps us understand

this quote better. This must have been really hard for Jesus to have his own family rejecting

him. He tells them he's not going, and the Greek phrase used here often includes the word yet,

meaning he's not going right now with them. He goes later, without his disciples in tow,

probably because having an entourage would

attract more attention. He's still trying to stay low profile in certain settings because the last time

he was in town, when he healed the lame man at the pools of Bethesda on the Sabbath, the Pharisees

wanted to kill him. He eventually goes to the week-long feast and starts teaching in the temple.

Typically, only the educated rabbis would do that,

and they would probably frown on anyone who tries to teach without being educated. But no one can

deny that educated or not, Jesus is knowledgeable. He knows stuff, and they're amazed not only at what

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