So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.
I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”
When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.
And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.
And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’
And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.
And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
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