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 7:6Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
• John 10:39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
• John 8:20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
• John 7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
• Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• John 7:44–46Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
• John 8:37I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
• John 7:8You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
• John 9:4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
• Luke 13:32–33He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
• John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
• Luke 19:47–48He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
• Ps 76:10Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
• Matt 21:46When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
• Mark 11:18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
• Luke 20:19The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people — for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
• John 7:19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
• John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
• Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
• John 11:9–10Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
• John 10:31Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

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