John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
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...