💫WEB · John 7:44
What does John 7:44 mean?
"Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him."
— John 7:44 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
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