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44 Now asome of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.  

Rejected by the Authorities

45 Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
46 The officers answered, a“No man ever spoke like this Man!”  
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived?
48 Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?
49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
50 Nicodemus a(he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,  
51 a“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”  
52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for ano prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”  

An Adulteress Faces the Light of the World

53 1And everyone went to his own house. 
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John 7:45-46

The officers - Those who had been appointed John 7:32 to take him. It seems that Jesus was in the midst of the people addressing them, and that they happened to come at the very time when he was speaking. They were so impressed and awed with what he said that they dared not take him. There have been few instances of eloquence like this. His speaking had so much evidence of truth, so much proof that he was from God, and was so impressive and persuasive, that they were convinced of his innocence, and they dared not touch him to execute their commission. We have here:

1.A remarkable testimony to the commanding eloquence of Jesus.

2.Wicked men may be awed and restrained by the presence of a good man, and by the evidence that he speaks that which is true.

3.God can preserve his friends. Here were men sent for a particular purpose. They were armed with power. They were commissioned by the highest authority of the nation. On the other hand, Jesus was without arms or armies, and without external protection. Yet, in a manner which the officers and the high priests would have little expected, he was preserved. So, in ways which we little expect, God will defend and deliver us when in the midst of danger.

4.No prophet, apostle, or minister has ever spoken the truth with as much power, grace, and beauty as Jesus. It should be ours, therefore, to listen to his words, and to sit at his feet and learn heavenly wisdom.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing John 7:46:

Psalms 45:2
Amos 5:10
Matthew 19:1

 

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