30Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
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Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-36)Here is, I. Christ’s public preaching in the temple (John 7:14): He went up into the temple, and taught , according to his custom when he was at Jerusalem. His business was to preach the gospel of the kingdom, and he did it in every place of concourse. His sermon is not recorded, because, probably, it was to the same purport with the sermons he had preached in Galilee, which were recorded by the o…
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