Teks -- John 10:39 (NET)

10:39 Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

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Robertson: Joh 10:39 - They sought again to seize him

They sought again to seize him ( ezētoun auton palin piazai ).

Imperfect active, "They kept on seeking to seize"(ingressive aorist active infinitive of piazō for which see Joh 7:30) as they had tried repeatedly (Joh 7:1, Joh 7:30, Joh 7:44; Joh 8:20), but in vain. They gave up the effort to stone him.

Robertson: Joh 10:39 - Out of their hand

Out of their hand ( ek tēs cheiros autōn ).

Overawed, but still angry, the stones fell to the ground, and Jesus walked out.

Vincent: Joh 10:39 - Again

Again

Pointing back to Joh 7:30, Joh 7:32, Joh 7:44, where the word πιάσαι , to seize , is found.

Vincent: Joh 10:39 - Escaped out of

Escaped out of ( ἐξῆλθεν ἐκ )

Rev., literally, went forth out of . The phrase occurs only here.

JFB: Joh 10:37-39 - though ye believe not me, believe the works

There was in Christ's words, independently of any miracles, a self-evidencing truth, majesty and grace, which those who had any spiritual susceptibility were unable to resist (Joh 7:46; Joh 8:30). But, for those who wanted this, "the works" were a mighty help. When these failed, the case was desperate indeed.

JFB: Joh 10:37-39 - that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him

Thus reiterating His claim to essential oneness with the Father, which He had only seemed to soften down, that He might calm their rage and get their ear again for a moment.

JFB: Joh 10:39 - Therefore they sought again to take him

True to their original understanding of His words, for they saw perfectly well that He meant to "make Himself God" throughout all this dialogue.

JFB: Joh 10:39 - he escaped out of their hand

(See on Luk 4:30; Joh 8:59).

Clarke: Joh 10:39 - They sought again to take him

They sought again to take him - They could not reply to his arguments but by stones. The evidence of the truth could not be resisted; and they endeavored to destroy the person who spoke it. Truth may confound the obstinately wicked, but it does not convert them; and it is a just judgment of God, to leave those to perish in their gainsayings who obstinately continue to gainsay and disbelieve

Clarke: Joh 10:39 - But he escaped

But he escaped - In such a way as we know not, for the evangelist has not specified the manner of it.

Calvin: Joh 10:39 - Therefore they sought again to seize him

39.Therefore they sought again to seize him This was undoubtedly that they might drive him out of the temple, and immediately stone him; for their rage was not at all abated by the words of Christ. As to what the Evangelist says, that he escaped out of their hands, this could not be accomplished in any other way than by a wonderful exertion of Divine power. This reminds us that we are not exposed to the lawless passions of wicked men, which God restrains by his bridle, whenever he thinks fit.

TSK: Joh 10:39

Joh 10:31, Joh 7:30,Joh 7:44, Joh 8:59; Luk 4:29, Luk 4:30

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Poole: Joh 10:39 - Therefore they sought again to take him

Therefore they sought again to take him because he said, that the Father was in him, and he in the Father; by which they well enough understood, that he asserted a union with the Father. They did not again go about to stone him, as they did before; he had sufficiently stopped their mouths as to their imputation of blasphemy; but they seek to apprehend him, with a design (no doubt) to carry him before the sanhedrim, their great court, which had cognizance of those things. But as he had once and again before, so he now again escapeth out of their hands; whether by darkening the air before their eyes, or (as some would have it) making his body invisible, by his Divine power, or what other way, the Scripture tells us not, and it is great rashness to determine.

Haydock: Joh 10:39 - And he escaped out of their hands

And he escaped out of their hands; perhaps making himself invisible, or hindering them by his divine power. (Witham)

Gill: Joh 10:39 - Therefore they sought again to take him // but he escaped out of their hands

Therefore they sought again to take him,.... Not to take away his life by stoning him, as before, in the manner the furious zealots did, and was the part they were about to act just now; but to lay hold upon him and bring him before the sanhedrim, as they had done in Joh 5:18, he being so far from clearing himself from the charge of blasphemy, they had brought against him, that in their opinion he had greatly strengthened it; and they thought they had now sufficient proof and evidence to convict him as a blasphemer, in their high court of judicature; and therefore attempted to lay hands on him, and bring him thither:

but he escaped out of their hands; either by withdrawing from them in some private way; or by open force, exerting his power, and obliging them on every side to fall back, and give way to him; or by rendering himself invisible to them; and this he did, not through fear of death, but because his time was not yet come, and he had other work to do, before he suffered and died.