After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
1. Jesus walked in Galilee. The Evangelist appears not to pursue a continued narrative, but to select out of what occurred at different times those events which were worthy of being related. He says that Christ sojourned for a time in Galilee, because he could not remain in safety anywhere among the Jews.
We have here, I. The reason given why Christ spent more of his time in Galilee than in Judea (Joh 7:1): because the Jews, the people in Judea and Jerusalem, sought to kill him, for curing the impotent man on the sabbath day, Joh 5:16.
Commenting on John 7:1-13
Verse 1. After these things. After the transactions which are recorded in the last chapters had taken place, and after the offence he had given the Jews. See . Jesus walked. Or Jesus lived, or taught. He travelled around Galilee teaching. In Jewry. In Judea, the southern division of Palestine. Comp. . The Jews sought. That is, the rulers of the Jews.