John 7:32

John 7:32

30 Therefore ^athey sought to take Him; but ^bno one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

31 And ^amany of the people believed in Him, and said, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?”

Jesus and the Religious Leaders

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him.

33 Then Jesus said¹ to them, ^a“I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I ^bgo to Him who sent Me.

34 You ^awill seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you ^bcannot come.”

35 Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to ^athe Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

36 What is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

37 ^aOn the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ^b“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

38 ^aHe who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, ^bout of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

39 ^aBut this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those¹ believing in Him would receive; for the² Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^bglorified.

Who Is He?

40 Therefore¹ many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is ^athe Prophet.”

41 Others said, “This is ^athe Christ.” But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee?

42 ^aHas not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, ^bwhere David was?”

43 So ^athere was a division among the people because of Him.

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?”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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The Pharisees (oi Farisaioi). This group of the Jewish rulers (John 7:11, John 7:15, John 7:25 f.) was particularly hostile to Christ, though already the Sadducees had become critical (Matthew 16:6) and they join here (oi arxiereiv, the chief priests being Sadducees) in determining to silence Jesus by bringing him before the Sanhedrin. They had heard the whispered talk about Jesus before he arrived (John 7:12 f.) and still more now.

Heard the multitude murmuring (hkousan tou oxlou gogguzontov). First aorist active indicative of akouw with the genitive case and the descriptive participle of the vivid onomatopoetic verb gogguzw (verse John 7:12) now grown louder like the hum of bees. It was the defence of Jesus by a portion of the crowd (John 7:31) that irritated the Pharisees. Here the Pharisees take the initiative and enlist the Sadducees in the Sanhedrin (for this combination see John 7:45; John 11:47, John 11:57; Matthew 21:45; Matthew 27:62, the organized court) to send "officers" (uphretav) "to take him" (ina piaswsin auton, final clause with ina and first aorist active subjunctive of piazw for which verb see verse John 7:30). For uphretav (temple police here) see verse John 7:45; John 18:3, John 18:12, John 18:22; John 19:6; Acts 5:22, Acts 5:26. For the word see Matthew 5:25; Luke 1:2, "an under rower" (upo, erethv), any assistant.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 7:32:**

Luke 6:38
John 7:12
John 7:20
John 7:35
John 7:45
John 8:37
John 9:22
John 11:47
John 12:10

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