John 7:30 Commentary and Bible Study

Who sought to take him? The official group of officers assigned to take him had not been appointed yet, but there were no doubt priests and Levites and Pharisees who were willing to take it upon themselves to seize him, and they sought to take him. But no, they could not. God made it impossible. We are not told how, but each time they went to move upon him, something dissuaded them. ‘Perhaps later would be a better moment’, they may have thought. Something he said caused them to recoil. It was God’s overruling and they could not do it. Another six months would go by before his humiliation and his arrest in apparent weakness, and those dreadful trials and his crucifixion, which he intended all along of course so he that he might die for us.