John 7:30
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
World English Bible British
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
29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
Cross References
Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
Mark 11:18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
Luke 19:47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men amongst the people sought to destroy him.
Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
John 7:8You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
John 7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest 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 →