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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And some of them would have taken him but no man laid hands on him. In the 30th verse of this chapter, and in the 20th verse of the next chapter, we are told why they did not take him: “His hour was not yet come.” And, like their Lord, saints are immortal till their work is done.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees,.... Who were assembled together in council, as the great sanhedrim of the nation; who were sitting and expecting Jesus to be brought before them. The same officers they sent to take him, John 7:32, returned to them without him; for though they were sent on that errand which they intended...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. The charm of his eloquence, the dignity of his person, his awe-inspiring demeanour, and a singular something,—they knew not what,—that Divinity that doth hedge about such a King as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came the officers to the chief priest and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? They professed to be the spiritual leaders of the nation, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The officers answered,.... Very honestly and uprightly, making use of no shifts and excuses; as that they could not find him, or could not come at him, because of the multitude about him, or that they were afraid of the people, lest they should rise upon them, and stone them, and rescue Jesus; which would have carried a show of probability, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then answered them the Pharisees, are ye also deceived?] As well as the common people; you that have been so long in our service, and should know better; or who, at least, should have taken the sense of your superiors, and should have waited to have had their opinion and judgment of him, and been determined by that, and not so hastily have joined...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? “You sheriffs’ officers are generally hard-hearted enough; are you also deceived?”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Have any of the rulers,.... In the sanhedrim, or of the synagogues; or the civil magistrates, the noble, rich, and wealthy: or of the Pharisees, believed on him; men famous for wisdom, learning, and holiness. It must be owned, there were but very few of this sort, and perhaps not an instance of this kind had as yet occurred to them; there was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? This was as much as to say, “If we have not believed on him,—we who are the great dons of the nation,—the rulers and the Pharisees,—why, then, there cannot be anything in his claims. Just as some people seem to think that, unless there is a lord in a Society, unless there is an honourable...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. With great contempt they style the followers of Jesus "this people"; the common people, the dregs of them, the refuse of the earth; and whom they call, עם הארץ, "the people of the earth", in distinction from the wise men, and their disciples: and when they speak the best of them, their account is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. They regarded the poor, common people as ignorant and accursed, whereas they, probably, knew as much about the law and the real spirit of it as these learned teachers did.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the people who knoweth not the law are cursed. Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of those,) Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? Nicodemus asked a simple question, but they could not answer it without convicting themselves of disobeying that very law of which they pretended...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nicodemus saith unto them,.... To the Jewish sanhedrim, who were running down Christ, and his followers, in great wrath and fury: he that came to Jesus by night; see John 3:1; being one of them; a member of the sanhedrim.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) Being a member of the council,—
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Doth our law judge any man,.... Or condemn any man; or can any man be lawfully condemned: before it hear him: what he has to say for himself; is this the usual process in our courts? or is this a legal one to condemn a man unheard? and know what he doth? what his crimes are. This he said, having a secret respect for Christ, though he had not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? He only asked a question, that was all; and, timid Christian, if you are placed where you cannot say much for Christ, if you have too great a fear upon you to vindicate your Master at any considerable length, yet say what you can; and, perhaps, the simple asking of a question...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They answered and said unto him,.... Being displeased with him, and as reproaching him, though they could not deny, or refute what he said: art thou also of Galilee? a follower of Jesus of Galilee, whom, by way of contempt, they called the Galilean, and his followers Galilaeans, as Julian the apostate after them did; for otherwise they knew that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. Which was a lie, for prophets had come out of Galilee. Still, they denied it; and they were indignant at having such a question put to them by Nicodemus.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They answered and said unto him Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. And every man went unto his own house.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And every man went unto his own house. The officers not bringing Jesus with them, and the sanhedrim being posed with Nicodemus, broke up without doing any business, and every member of it went home: this we may suppose was about the time of the evening sacrifice: for "the great sanhedrim sat from the time of the morning daily sacrifice, to the...