During the eight-day Festival of Shelters, most families lived in outdoor booths designed to remind them of Israel's forty years of wandering in the desert. These makeshift, palm-branch shelters often had low walls and sparse roofs. You ate in the open and slept where your neighbors could see you. But in Jerusalem, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims created their own Airbnbs in the streets and courtyards, the boundaries between public and private collapsed. When everyone is everywhere, hiding is nearly impossible. So, Jesus' brothers give the perfect advice: this is your moment. Reveal that you are the Messiah, do a miracle, call for an uprising, and you will be unstoppable. But John reveals what's hidden: his brothers did not believe in him. They looked at Jesus and saw an opportunity. Just as YHWH grieved over the unbelief of his people in the desert, now Jesus must grieve over the unbelief of his own brothers. I remember having dinner with a family member. After my wife prepared an amazing meal, he remarked, "You know, I think Christians are the Taliban of America." It was so shocking we didn't know how to respond. I can't imagine what would have happened if I'd responded, "The world cannot hate you, because your works are evil." But Jesus does tell his brothers, "You are so aligned with an evil world that your plans have no significance to God." He looks them in the eyes and explains, 'You're on the side of hating me, because I reveal your wickedness.' It's no small thing to say that God is holy. But then, Jesus goes to the festival. Did he lie? No, he didn't go to the festival on their terms, but his own. The authorities knew the risk of revolution, and they spread the word: don't risk associating yourself with a man marked for death. If Jesus wanted to trick people, he had a strange way of going about it. He goes to Jerusalem incognito to prove that his glory will be revealed by God on his sovereign timetable. It's an ironic foreshadowing of the cross. Then, everyone will see him, but no one will recognize him.