32The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
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Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. …
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves? …
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? …
And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? …
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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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