John 7:45 — Community Reflections

JOHN 7:45 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?”

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.

Church Fathers on John 7:45

Our Lord having invited those, who believed in Him, to drink of the Holy Spirit, a dissension arose among the multitude: Many of the people therefore, when they heart these saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
Augustine · 4th century

The one, that is, who was expected. Others, i.e. the people said, This is the Christ.
Theophylact · 11th century

These had now begun to drink in that spiritual thirst, and had laid aside the unbelieving thirst. But others still remained dried up in their unbelief: But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said, That Christ comes of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? They knew what were the predictions of the Prophets respecting Christ, but knew not that they all were fulfilled in Him. They knew that He had been brought up…
Alcuin · 8th century

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