The last reference in this gospel to Jesus' ministry in Galilee is given in 7: 1. Jesus' brothers did not believe in him but told him to go with them from Galilee to Jerusalem to celebrate the approaching Feast of Shelters. What they said indicated that they thought that if his claims were true, he would receive public recognition as the Messiah in Jerusalem (7:2-5). He refused to go with them-'the right time for me has not yet come' (7:6). His brothers' lives were controlled by the times and seasons of Judaism, by the time scale of this world, but God's Son would act only in obedience to the will of his Father so that the divine plan might be carried out in God's time.