They sought again to seize him
(εζητουν αυτον παλιν πιαζα). Imperfect active, "They kept on seeking to seize (ingressive aorist active infinitive of πιαζω for which see John 7:30) as they had tried repeatedly (John 7:1; John 7:30; John 7:44; John 8:20), but in vain. They gave up the effort to stone him.Out of their hand
(εκ της χειρος αυτων). Overawed, but still angry, the stones fell to the ground, and Jesus walked out.
JOHN 10:39 evzh,toun @ou=n# {C} The absence of ou=n, a favorite connective in the Fourth Gospel, may be accounted for through haplography (evzh,toun), but its replacement with de, or kai, in other wi...
Verse 39. _THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM_] They could not reply to his _arguments_ but by _stones_. The evidence of the truth could not be resisted; and they endeavoured to destroy the person who spok...
SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM - They evidently understood him as still claiming equality with God, and under this impression Jesus left them. Nor can it be doubted that he intended to leave them with this...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM. Not to stone him, for their passion had cooled, but to arrest him. His escape was not probably due to miracle, but with many friends among the throng, he could readily w...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
The Jews again lifted up stones to stone him. Jesus said to them: "I have showed you many lovely deeds, which came from my Father. For which of these deeds are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answer...
TAKE. arrest. See John 7:30; John 7:32; John 7:44. ESCAPED. went forth. Compare John 8:59 and...
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...
Opposite Results of the Discourse 39. _Therefore they sought again_ -Therefore" is of rather doubtful authenticity; some important witnesses omit -again" also. -Again" refers us back to John 7:30; Joh...
ἘΖΉΤΟΥΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΠΆΛΙΝ. Both οὖν and πάλιν are of somewhat uncertain authority: the termination of ἐζήτουν might cause the omission of οὖν. Πάλιν. refers to John 7:30; John 7:32; John 7:44, and shews tha...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
VER 39. THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM: BUT HE ESCAPED OUT OF THEIR HAND, 40. AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED; AND THERE HE ABODE. 41. AND MANY R...
_PEOPLE PUT THEIR FAITH IN JESUS -- JOHN 10:39-42:_ Again the Jewish leaders wanted to arrest Jesus. But he escaped. Just how Jesus avoided capture we are not told. Jesus crossed the Jordan to the pla...
ΈΖΉΤΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать. Iterat. _impf._ описывает их неоднократные попытки побить Его камнями. "Они постоянно пытались побить Его камнями" ΠΙΆΣΑΙ _aor. inf. act. от_ ΠΙΆΖΩ...
EVIDENCE FOR DEITY _Text 10:32-42_ 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:22-42 It is by no means a simple task either to analyze or to summarize the second half of John 10. The twenty-second verse clearly begins a new section of th...
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM - true to their original understanding of His words, because they saw perfectly w...
34 The term "gods" is translated "judges" in Exo_21:6; Exo_22:8-9, where it refers to men. But our Lord does not appeal to this, but to Psa_82:6 where the context clearly excludes men. The mighty spir...
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM. — He has removed all ground for the charge of blasphemy, and they have abandoned the attempt to stone Him, though He here repeats the very truth which led to t...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
Ἐζήτουν … αὐτῶν. His words so far convinced them that they dropped the stones, but they sought to arrest Him. The πάλιν refers to John 7:30; John 7:44. But He escaped out of their hand, and departed a...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
THE WORKS OF THE FATHER John 10:31-42 In the strongest terms known to the Jews, our Lord insisted on His oneness with God; and they understood His claims, threatening Him with the penalty of blasphem...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
(11) Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, (11) Christ flees danger, not because of mistrust, nor for fear of death, nor that he would be lazy, but to gather a Ch...
_And he escaped out of their hands; perhaps making himself invisible, or hindering them by his divine power. (Witham)_...
THE ASSAULT John 10:30-39. “ _I and My Father are one_.” There is but one God, but three persons _i.e._, three characters manifested by the Deity to the world. I am a preacher, a teacher, and a book e...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
III. SECOND ADDRESS: JOHN 10:32-39. The reply of Jesus treats of two subjects: 1. That of the _blasphemy_ which is imputed to Him (John 10:32-36); 2. That of His _relation_ to God which is contested ...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 33-42. 1. There can be no doubt that the Jews understood Jesus as claiming to be God. John 10:33 clearly proves this. The words of the following verses ar...
VER. 39. “ _They sought therefore again to take him; but he went forth out of their hands._ ” Perhaps this softened form in which Jesus had just repeated the affirmation of His divinity had had the ef...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father: for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
39._Therefore they sought again to seize him. _This was undoubtedly that they might drive him out of the temple, and immediately stone him; for their rage was not at all abated by the words of Christ....
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM,.... Not to take away his life by stoning him, as before, in the manner the furious zealots did, and was the part they were about to act just now; but to lay ho...
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, Ver. 39. _Therefore they sought again to take him_] They could not answer his arguments, they turn them therefore to a cours...
_If I do not the works of my Father_, &c. When I claim the character of _the Son of God_, I do not expect to be credited merely on my own affirmation: if I do not such glorious works as could not be p...
THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM; because he still claimed to be the Messiah, the Son of God, truly divine-because he claimed to be what John, under the guidance of the Holy Ghost, at the beginning of th...
THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM; BUT HE ESCAPED OUT OF THEIR HAND,...
Jesus leaves Jerusalem:...
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
39-42 No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to d...
THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM; because he said, that the Father was in him, and he in the Father; by which they well enough understood, that he asserted a union with the Father. They did not...
John 10:39 Therefore G3767 sought G2212 (G5707) again G3825 seize G4084 (G5658) Him G846 but G2532 escaped...
‘They sought again to take him and he went forth out of their hand.' They did this by some of them leaving and arranging for Temple police to make the arrest, but once again He escaped them. While th...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
John 10:39. THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO SEIZE HIM: AND HE WENT FORTH OUT OF THEIR HAND. ‘Again' seems to point back to chap. 7, where the same word ‘seize' is found three times (John 7:30; John 7:32;...
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
ESCAPED Or, went forth out of their hand. See (Luke 4:30); (John 8:59)....
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
ONCE MORE THEY TRIED TO ARREST HIM. Their "violence" is _cooled down_ by the quiet words of Jesus, and they drop their stones. But they still reject him and intend to arrest him....
_Therefore they sought again to take Him_ I. MORAL INCORRIGIBILITY. What was the result of Christ’s appeal to His works and to their law? Of His noble life and strong logic? Were their prejudices bro...
_Then came the Jews round about Him_ THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparently w...
VER. 32. _Jesus answered_, &c. He replied not to the words, for none had been spoken, but to the crafty intention of the Jews. He answered, _i.e._, He asked them for what cause do ye wish to stone Me?...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
John 10:31; John 7:30; John 7:44; John 8:59; Luke 4:29;...
Again. Pointing back to John 7:30; John 7:32; John 7:44, where the word piasai, to seize, is found. Escaped out of [ε ξ η λ θ ε ν ε κ]. Rev., literally, went forth out of. The phrase occurs only here...
Observe here, 1. The violence and fury of these unbelieving Jews, against the holy and innocent Jesus! THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM. Observe, 2. The prudential care of Christ for his own preservation...