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 7:6Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
• John 10:39Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
• John 8:20These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
• John 7:32The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
• Isa 46:10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• John 7:44–46And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
• John 8:37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
• John 7:8Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.
• John 9:4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
• Luke 13:32–33And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
• John 11:57Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
• Luke 19:47–48And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
• Ps 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
• Matt 21:46But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
• Mark 11:18And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
• Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
• John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
• John 8:59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
• Luke 22:53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
• John 11:9–10Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
• John 10:31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

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