Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
John 7:44
There were some that had an ill opinion of Christ, and put on the officers that came for the purpose to apprehend him; but there was none so hardy as to do it.
There were some that had an ill opinion of Christ, and put on the officers that came for the purpose to apprehend him; but there was none so hardy as to do it.
Verse 44. _WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM_] Or, _they wished to seize him_. And this they would have done, and destroyed him too at that time, had they been _unanimous_; but their being _divided_ in opinion, J...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. My Time is not Yet Come. (John 7:1 .)_ 2. Departure from Galilee; Sought by the Jews. (John 7:10 .) 3. In the Temple Teaching. (John 7:14 .) 4. Opposition to Him. ...
THE LAST DAY OF THE FEAST. The Feast of Tabernacles, the feast of the ingathering at the end of summer, lasted seven days in early times (Deuteronomy 16:13). An eighth day was added later (Leviticus 2...
SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM. In the heat and bitter animosity of the dispute some were eager to lay violent hands on him. For. year and. half the Jewish leaders had been looking for. pretext to...
On the last, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. As the scripture says: 'He who believes in me--rivers of living water shall flow fr...
NOT MAN'S TIME BUT GOD'S (John 7:1-9)...
WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM. desired to take Him (two verbs). Luke 7:17. See App-102....
_some of them_ Some of the multitude, provoked by the controversy, would on their own responsibility have carried Him before the Sanhedrin. These -some" are not the officers mentioned in the next vers...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ΤΙΝΈΣ. Not the officers, but some zealots who would have arrested Him on their own responsibility. see on John 11:27....
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSES...
VER 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,...
_DIVISION OVER WHO JESUS IS -- JOHN 7:40-53:_ There was division over the identify of Jesus. Some said He was a fraud and deceiver. Others said that He was the Prophet or that He was the Christ. He wa...
ΉΘΕΛΟΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ John 7:1. ΠΙΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΙΆΖΩ, _см._ John 7:32; _inf._ в качестве дополнения....
MANY OF THE PEOPLE THEREFORE,— Our Lord appears to have been discoursing as above, when the officerssent by the council to apprehend him, John 7:32 came up: but as it was an uncommon topic, and he see...
DISCOURSE ON THE LIVING WATER _Text 7:37-52_ 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 38 He that belie...
THE OLD SABBATH CONTROVERSY RENEWED _Text 7:14-53_ 14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How knoweth thi...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 7:32-53 The following is a general Outline of the passage which is to be before us:— Before examining in detail the dosing verses of John 7 this will be the bes...
And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. AND SOME OF THEM (THE MORE ENVENOMED OF THOSE WHO HAD TAKEN THE ADVERSE SIDE OF THE QUESTION), WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM [OR 'WERE MI...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES John 7:1 to John 10:21. Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6, delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go up to Jeru...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 JESUS AND HIS BROTHERS 7:1-9 V1 After this, Jesus stayed in *Galilee. He travelled from village to village. He decide...
AND SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM — _i.e.,_ those who asked “Doth the Christ, then, come out of Galilee?” (John 7:41.) The officers of the Sanhedrin were present all this time (John 7:32), and are...
CHAPTER 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of...
_Jesus proclaims His ability to quench human thirst with living water_....
Σχίσμα … χεῖρας. On this verse Calvin has the following pertinent remark: “quaecunque dissidia emergunt quum praedicatur Evangelium, eorum causa et semen prius in hominibus latebant; sed tunc demum qu...
THE BLINDNESS OF PREJUDICE John 7:40-53 These short descriptions of the impressions made on His hearers by the discourses of Jesus indicate the double development which was resulting from His minist...
So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two year...
IGNORANCE OF THE JEWS John 7:40-44. _“Then some of the multitude, hearing these words, continued to say, Truly this One is the Prophet.”_ This is a phrase in O. T. often applied to the Messiah. _“Othe...
THIRD SECTION: 7:1-8:59. THE STRIFE AT ITS HIGHEST STAGE OF INTENSITY AT JERUSALEM. Seven months had elapsed without any appearance of Jesus at Jerusalem. The exasperation of the rulers, whose murdero...
1. THE TRUE SOURCE: 7:37-52. John reports the discourse of Jesus and gives the explanation of it (John 7:37-39); he describes the different impressions of the multitude (John 7:40-44); he gives an acc...
III. ON AND AFTER THE GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST: 7:37-8:59. The last and great day of the feast has arrived; Jesus lays aside the apologetic form which until now He has given to His teachings. His word a...
“ _Some among the multitude_, _who had heard these words said, This man is of a truth the prophet. Others said, This is the Christ._ 41. _But others said, Does the Christ then come out of Galilee?_ 42...
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying. If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. (38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his be...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
44._Some of them wished to seize him. _By these words the Evangelist means, that they not only despised Christ, but that their wicked rejection of him was accompanied by cruelty and eagerness to do hi...
In chapter 7 His brethren after the flesh, still sunk in unbelief, would have Him shew Himself to the world, if He did these great things; but the time for this was not yet come. At the fulfilment of...
AND SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM,.... Some of the latter sort, who did not believe he was the Messiah; who were the most averse to him, and hot and furious against him; these were for seizing him...
And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. Ver. 44. _Some of them would have taken him_] _Semper crudelis est superstitio._ There can be no greater argument of an ill cause...
_Many of the people therefore_ Even the officers sent to apprehend Christ, (see John 7:46,) as welt as many others of our Lord's hearers; _when they heard this saying_ Namely, the gracious invitation...
The effect of the sermon:...
AND SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM; BUT NO MAN LAID HANDS ON HIM. Both the words and the manner of Jesus upon this occasion made a profound impression, but the people were impressed in various ways...
HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lowly...
40-53 The malice of Christ's enemies is always against reason, and sometimes the staying of it cannot be accounted for. Never any man spake with that wisdom, and power, and grace, that convincing cle...
John 7:44 Now G1161 some G5100 of G1537 them G846 wanted G2309 (G5707) take G4084 (G5658) Him...
‘So there arose a division in the crowd because of him. And some of them would have taken him, but no man laid hands on him.' And so there was division among them. Some wanted His arrest, others wante...
THE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER (JOHN 7:37). Meanwhile the Feast of Tabernacles was drawing to a close with its emphasis on harvest and the prayers for rain for the coming year. The people were totally dep...
In this section Jesus appears at the feast to which He went up when His Father's, and therefore His own, hour was come. The opportunity afforded by it of teaching is embraced, and we are presented wit...
John 7:43-44. THERE AROSE THEREFORE A DIVISION AMONG THE MULTITUDE BECAUSE OF HIM. AND SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE SEIZED HIM; but no man laid hands on him. Compare John 7:30. Here, as there, the result o...
WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM (ηθελον πιασα αυτον). Imperfect active of θελω and first aorist active infinitive of πιαζω, "were wishing to seize him." See verse John 7:30 for a like impulse and restraint, t...
John 7:30. _Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracle...
John 7:14. _Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught._ He was no coward, so he boldly showed himself in the midst of the throng in the temple. John 7:15. _And the J...
CONTENTS: Jesus urged to go to the feast. His final departure from Galilee. Jesus at the feast of tabernacles. Prophecy concerning the Holy Spirit. CHARACTERS: God. Jesus, Holy Spirit, disciples, bro...
John 7:1. _He would not walk in Jewry,_ or Judea, _because the jews sought to kill him._ Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same pl...
OTHERS SAID. Who is he??? On their thinking, compare the questions they asked John the Baptist (John 1:19-25). They thought he was a native of Galilee. WILL BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. See notes on Matthew...
_On the last day, that great day of the feast_ JESUS THE CHRIST I. PROFFERING BLESSINGS. 1. Water for the thirsty (John 7:37; Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11;...
CHAPTER 7 _But after this Jesus walked in Galilee_, &c. Not immediately, but about six months after. The incidents of the former chapter took place in March, the feast of tabernacles was in September....
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:41. THE CHRIST.—Hearts open to the truth were convinced and confessed Him. BUT SOME SAID, ETC.—These were unlike the guileless Nathanael (John 1:46). He asked w...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of angry...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of the gospel according to John. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him...
Acts 18:10; Acts 23:11; Acts 27:23; John 18:5; John 18:6;...
Would have taken [η θ ε λ ο ν π ι α σ α ι]. See on 7 17. Rather, were disposed : or wished to take him....