John 10:39

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

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WEBBE

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

BSB

At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.

KJV

Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

ASV

They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand.

BBE

Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.

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Ἐζήτουν Ezētoun They were seeking G2212 οὖν oun therefore G3767 αὐτὸν auton Him G846 πάλιν palin again G3825 πιάσαι piasai to seize G4084 καὶ kai but G2532 ἐξῆλθεν exēlthen He went forth G1831 ἐκ ek out of G1537 τῆς tēs the G3588 χειρὸς cheiros hand G5495 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846

The early church

(Hom. lxi. 3) Christ, after discoursing on some high truth, commonly retires immediately, to give time to the fury of people to abate, during His absence. Thus He did now: He went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized. He went there that He might recall to people's minds, what had gone on there; John's preaching and testimony to Himself.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(Tract. xlviii. 11) To lay hold of Him, not by faith and the understanding, but with bloodthirsty violence. Do thou so lay hold of Him, that thou mayest have sure hold; they would fain have laid hold on Him, but they could not: for it follows, But He escaped out of their hand. They did lay hold of Him with the hand of faith. It was no great matter for the Word to rescue His flesh from the hands of flesh.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
The Jews still persist in their madness; Therefore they sought again to take Him.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 39–42

No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to deliver the godly our of their temptations, and to make a way for them to escape. Persecutors may drive Christ and his gospel our of their own city or country, but they cannot drive him or it out of the world. When we know Christ by faith in our hearts, we find all that the Scripture saith of him is true.

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