John 7:8

“Go we up unto this feast, etc.] Suggesting, that he would not have them stay for him, or hinder themselves on his account: he encourages them to go up, and observe this festival; for the ceremonial law was not yet abolished; and though they were carnal men, and did not understand what it typified: and so unregenerate persons ought to attend on the outward means, as the hearing of the word, etc. though they do not understand it; it may be God may make use of it, for the enlightening of their minds; and blessed are they that wait at Wisdom’s gates, and there find Christ, and life and salvation by him: I go not up yet unto this feast; this clause, in one of Beza’s copies, is wholly left out;…”

“I go not up yet - Jesus remained until about the middle of the feast, John 7:14. That is, he remained about four days after his brethren had departed, or until the mass of the people had gone up, so that his going might excite no attention, and that it might not be said he chose such a time to excite a tumult. We have here a signal instance of our Lord’s prudence and opposition to parade. Though it would have been lawful for him to go up at that time, and though it would have been a favorable period to make himself known, yet he chose to forego these advantages rather than to afford an occasion of envy and jealousy to the rulers, or to appear even to excite a tumult among the people. return…”

“I go not: Joh 7:6, Joh 7:30, Joh 8:20, Joh 8:30, Joh 11:6, Joh 11:7; Co1 2:15, Co1 2:16 John 7:10”