Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

John 7:44-46
New English Translation

44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.[a]

Lack of Belief

45 Then the officers[b] returned[c] to the chief priests and Pharisees,[d] who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”[e] 46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. John 7:44 sn Cf. John 7:30 regarding the attempt to seize Jesus.
  2. John 7:45 tn Or “servants.” The “chief priests and Pharisees” is a comprehensive term for the groups represented in the ruling council (the Sanhedrin) as in John 7:45; 18:3; Acts 5:22, 26. As “servants” or “officers” of the Sanhedrin, their representatives should be distinguished from the Levites serving as temple police (perhaps John 7:30 and 44; also John 8:20; 10:39; 19:6; Acts 4:3). Even when performing ‘police’ duties such as here, their “officers” are doing so only as part of their general tasks (See K. H. Rengstorf, TDNT 8:540).
  3. John 7:45 tn Grk “came.”
  4. John 7:45 sn See the note on Pharisees in 1:24.
  5. John 7:45 tn Grk “Why did you not bring him?” The words “back with you” are implied.
Next
John 6
John 8
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.