John 7:45
So the Temple guards returned to the chief priests and the Pharisees, the ones who had sent them to arrest Jesus. They said to the guards, “Why did you not seize him and bring him here?”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
44Some people wanted to seize him, but no one tried to do that.
46They replied, “No one ever spoke such amazing things as this man does!”
Cross References
Acts 5:21So having heard this, about dawn they entered the Temple courtyard and began to teach the people again about Jesus. Meanwhile, the high priest and those who were with him summoned the other Jewish Council members. Altogether they made up the entire Council of Israel. After they all gathered together, they sent guards to the jail to bring in the apostles.
Matthew Henry on John 7:38-45
The Gospel Invitation. 37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) 40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the… Read the whole commentary →