If the world hates those who testify that its works are evil, why didn`t Jesus deemphasize this portion of His message?
The world hates me he says because I testify to the truth that I am the Son of God. He refers to the judgement. My hour in other words death has not come yet and I know when it comes. But you don`t know. The Lord sees you - Jesus going to the feast without them knowing - and will see if you testify to the Lord / me or not. If he deemphasised the `evil` I take the blasphemy that he is the Son of God he the very Son of God would deny His father and the truth. He is not afraid and he testifies that till and with his own death having Pilatus recognise that: you say that I am otherwise you wouldn`t put me to death. He defies challenges his brothers. By: Alessandra Parrini - January 13, 2007 - Public Category: Jesus Goes to the Feast of Tabernacles
After these things,
Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the
Jews sought to kill him. Now the feast of the Jews, the
Feast of Booths, was at hand. His brothers therefore said to
him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also
may see your works which you do. For no one does anything in
secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things,
reveal yourself to the world." For even his brothers didn't
believe in him.
Jesus therefore said to
them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is
always ready. The world
can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its
works are evil. You go up
to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not
yet fulfilled." Having said these
things to them, he stayed in Galilee. But when his brothers had gone up
to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in
secret. The Jews
therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
There was much murmuring
among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good
man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitudeastray." Yet no one
spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
