Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
In the treasury (en tw gazofulakiw). See already Mark 12:41; Luke 21:1 for this word for the treasure-chambers of the temple. "It abutted on the Court of the Women, and against its walls were placed chests, trumpet-like in form, as receptacles for the offerings of the worshippers" (Bernard). The Persian word gaza (treasure) occurs only once in the N.T. (Acts 8:27) and the compound (fulakh, guard) only here in John. Jesus hardly taught within a treasure-chamber. It probably means "at the treasury in the temple." This court was probably the most public part of the temple (Vincent).
And (kai)="and yet" as in John 1:10, etc.
Because his hour was not yet come (oti oupw elhluqei h wra autou).
Reason (oti) given why no one seized (epiasen, cf. John 7:30) him. Elhluqei is past perfect active of erxomai, "had not yet come." This very use of wra appears in John 2:4 and the very clause in John 7:30 which see.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 8:20:
Mark 14:35
Luke 21:1
John 2:4
John 8:12
John 8:37
John 10:39
John 12:23
John 18:20
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