And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him — some in the crowd attempt to arrest Jesus, but again, none succeeds. As in 7:30, the failure to arrest is attributed to something beyond human agency—'his hour was not yet come.' The repeated pattern emphasizes that Jesus's destiny is not controlled by either his enemies' plots or his followers' protection, but by the Father's timing.

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