30 So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, “Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, will he?”[a]

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order to take him into custody .[b]

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:31 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “will he
  2. John 7:32 Literally “that they could seize him”