John 7:30

They tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come. God's sovereign timing protected Him until the appointed moment.

Cross-references · 21

• John 7:6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
• John 10:39At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
• John 8:20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
• John 7:32When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.
• Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
• John 7:44–46Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.
• John 8:37I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
• John 7:8Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
• John 9:4While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
• Luke 13:32–33But Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.’
• John 11:57But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
• Luke 19:47–48Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.
• Ps 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
• Matt 21:46Although they wanted to arrest Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded Him as a prophet.
• Mark 11:18When the chief priests and scribes heard this, they looked for a way to kill Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
• Luke 20:19When the scribes and chief priests realized that Jesus had spoken this parable against them, they sought to arrest Him that very hour. But they were afraid of the people.
• John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
• John 8:59At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.
• Luke 22:53Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on Me. But this hour belongs to you and to the power of darkness.”
• John 11:9–10Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
• John 10:31At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

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