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. Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.” After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee. However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.
John 7:3-10
Wisdom in the WORD 
Some might call this deceptive behavior on Jesus’ part. Is there a lesson for us in this beyond hearing and following God’s leading and timing?
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He was speaking a different language.
He was not going to the festival at all. He never did. The problem was with them, not him or what he said.
The lesson there is to listen to what God says more intently and be transformed from my words and my ways, my thinking and my understanding, to His thoughts and his ways.
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