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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

约翰福音 7:30

於是他們想逮捕他,只是沒有人下手,因為他的時候還沒有到。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Persecution;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hour, Christ's;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hour;   Jesus christ;   John, gospel of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Feasts;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hour;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Activity;   Dispersion ;   Error;   Hour;   Logos;   Necessity;   Touch;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacles feast of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Take;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sadducees;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 就 想 要 捉 拿 耶 稣 ; 只 是 没 有 人 下 手 , 因 为 他 的 时 候 还 没 有 到 。

Contextual Overview

14 When the feast was about half over, Jesus went to the Temple and began to teach. 15 The people were amazed and said, "This man has never studied in school. How did he learn so much?" 16 Jesus answered, "The things I teach are not my own, but they come from him who sent me. 17 If people choose to do what God wants, they will know that my teaching comes from God and not from me. 18 Those who teach their own ideas are trying to get honor for themselves. But those who try to bring honor to the one who sent them speak the truth, and there is nothing false in them. 19 Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys that law. Why are you trying to kill me?" 20 The people answered, "A demon has come into you. We are not trying to kill you." 21 Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22 Moses gave you the law about circumcision. (But really Moses did not give you circumcision; it came from our ancestors.) And yet you circumcise a baby boy on a Sabbath day. 23 If a baby boy can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the law of Moses, why are you angry at me for healing a person's whole body on the Sabbath day?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: John 7:19, John 7:32, John 8:37, John 8:59, John 10:31, John 10:39, John 11:57, Mark 11:18, Luke 19:47, Luke 19:48, Luke 20:19

but: John 7:6, John 7:8, John 7:44-46, John 8:20, John 9:4, John 11:9, John 11:10, Psalms 76:10, Isaiah 46:10, Luke 13:32, Luke 13:33, Luke 22:53

Reciprocal: Psalms 31:15 - My times Ecclesiastes 3:2 - and a time Matthew 26:18 - My time Mark 12:12 - feared Mark 14:41 - the hour John 2:4 - mine John 13:1 - knew John 17:1 - the hour John 19:11 - Thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they sought to take him,.... By force, and carry him before the sanhedrim, in order to be tried and condemned as a blasphemer, being enraged to hear him claim a descent from God, whom they took to be a mere man, the son of Joseph the carpenter:

but no man laid hands on him; though they had a good will to it, they had no power to do it, being restrained by the, secret providence of God from it, and awed by the majesty of Christ, which showed itself in his looks and words; and perhaps also they might be afraid of the people, lest they should rise in his favour; and so every man being fearful of being the first that should seize him, no man did: however, so it was ordered by divine providence, that he should not be apprehended at, this time,

because his hour was not yet come; to suffer and die, to depart out of this world, and go to the Father: there was a precise time fixed for this in the council and covenant of God, by mutual compact, called "due time"; as his coming into the world is called "the fulness of time"; nor could he die before that time, and therefore no man was suffered to lay hands on him, whatever good will he had to it. And there is a time for every man's death, nor can any man die before that time, or live beyond it; see Ecclesiastes 3:2; and this is the sense of the ancient Jews; for they say h,

"a man before his years, or his time, does not die;''

that is, before he comes to the years appointed for him: and they ask i,

"who is there that goes before his time? i.e. dies before his time?''

And it is said k of a certain person who was in his house, and

מטא זמניה, "his time was come"; and he died without sickness: though it must be owned some of them were otherwise minded, and say l, that death, by the hand of heaven, or God, shortens a man's years; and that there are some reasons for which righteous men depart out of this world before their time is come; and particularly of Enoch they say, God took him before his time was come m.

h T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 114. 2. & Sanhedrin, fol. 29. 1. & Bava Metzia, fol. 85. 1. i T. Bab. Chagiga, fol. 4. 2. k Zohar in Exod. fol. 71. 4. l Piske Tosephot. Sabbat, art. 113. m Zohar in Exod. fol. 4. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then they sought to take him - The rulers and their friends. They did this:

1.Because of his reproof; and,

2.For professing to be the Messiah.

His hour - The proper and the appointed time for his death. See Matthew 21:46.


 
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