John 7:4
Good News Translation
People don't hide what they are doing if they want to be well known. Since you are doing these things, let the whole world know about you!" (

New Revised Standard Version
for no one who wants to be widely known acts in secret. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

Contemporary English Version
No one does anything in secret, if they want others to know about them. So let the world know what you are doing!"

New American Bible
No one works in secret if he wants to be known publicly. If you do these things, manifest yourself to the world.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.

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Proverbs 18:1,2 He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach. . . .

Matthew 6:1,2,5,16 Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. . . .

Matthew 23:5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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John 18:20 Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.

1 Kings 22:13 And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one mouth declare good things to the king: let thy word, therefore, be like to theirs, and speak that which is good.

Matthew 4:6 And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Acts 2:4-12 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. . . .

Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
3And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost. 4For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world. 5For neither did his brethren believe in him.…
Cross References
John 7:3
And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.

John 7:5
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

John 7:3
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