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His brothers therefore said to him "Leave here and go into Judea so that your disciples (those that had left him?) can see the things that you are doing. After all nobody would want to do these sorts of things in secret. but would rather seek to be in the open. If you are doing these things show yourself to the world." His brothers said this because they did not believe in him.
Jesus therefore says to them "My time has not yet arrived. But your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you. But it hates me
because I show that its works are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet been fulfilled." And saying this to them he stayed on in Galilee. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly but as if in secret.
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and many people from the country went up to Jerusalem before the feast
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