they said:
“also may see the works”
this would include his public speeches. john supports this : i have spoken openly to the world
mark says that jesus hid his important teachings.
but when jesus said :
I am not going to this festival
this would mean that they did not think that jesus would do his public speeches, because he said he is not going.
this is exactly what Bart Ehrman says :
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John 1:29-31, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! … I myself did not know him, but I came baptizing with water was that he might be made manifest to Israel.”
John 17:6 “I have manifested your name to men …”
The idea is showing his true divine self to Israel. Its this the brothers asked him to do and this he refused to do at that time.
He went up to the feast but secretly not manifestly.
If the author doens’t give motivation to Jesus to lie his brothers then this is the sense it should be taken. “I not going up to the feast” means “I not going up as my-true-manifest-self to the feast.
“I not going up to the feast” means “I not going up as my-true-manifest-self to the feast.
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so jesus means that they should show up to the feast as disbelievers AND by that they knew he meant that when he said he is not going, he meant he is going up as something other than….?
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