John 7:30
Then they sought to take him; yet no one laid his hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
In Context
29But I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me.
Cross References
Mark 11:18And the scribes and the chief priests heard him; and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude were astonished at his teaching.
Luke 19:47And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scribes, and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
Luke 22:53While I was daily with you in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the authority of darkness.
John 7:8Do you go up to this feast. I go not up now to this feast, because my time has not yet fully come.
John 7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and chief priests sent attendants to take him.
Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →