the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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John 10:39
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
John 10:31, John 7:30, John 7:44, John 8:59, Luke 4:29, Luke 4:30
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:11 - And David 1 Samuel 19:10 - he slipped Matthew 10:23 - when Matthew 12:14 - went Mark 3:7 - Jesus Luke 12:50 - and Luke 19:47 - the chief priests John 5:16 - and sought John 7:1 - walked John 7:19 - Why John 8:20 - and no John 11:8 - the Jews John 11:57 - had John 12:36 - and departed
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 hold upon him and bring him before the sanhedrim, as they had done in John 5:18: he being so far from clearing himself from the charge of blasphemy, they had brought against him, that in their opinion he had greatly strengthened it; and they thought they had now sufficient proof and evidence to convict him as a blasphemer, in their high court of judicature; and therefore attempted to lay hands on him, and bring him thither:
but he escaped out of their hands; either by withdrawing from them in some private way; or by open force, exerting his power, and obliging them on every side to fall back, and give way to him; or by rendering himself invisible to them; and this he did, not through fear of death, but because his time was not yet come, and he had other work to do, before he suffered and died.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 impression; and if so, then he is divine.
He escaped - See John 8:59.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 spoke it. Truth may confound the obstinately wicked, but it does not convert them; and it is a just judgment of God, to leave those to perish in their gainsayings who obstinately continue to gainsay and disbelieve.
But he escaped — In such a way as we know not, for the evangelist has not specified the manner of it.
