Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? — the Temple officers who were sent to arrest Jesus (7:32) return without him. The chief priests and Pharisees demand an explanation: 'Why have ye not brought him?' Their expectation was that armed officers could simply seize Jesus. The fact that they did not reflects either the crowd's protection, the officers' own doubts, or (as John suggests) the timing determined by Jesus's hour.

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