John 7:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐζήτουν οὖν αὐτὸν πιάσαι: καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐπέβαλεν ἐπʼ αὐτὸν τὴν χεῖρα, ὅτι οὔπω ἐληλύθει ἡ ὥρα αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

They ezētoun oun him piasai: and oudeis epebalen upon him the cheira, hoti oupō elelythei the hōra of him.

Grammar Details

• *ezētoun*: imperfect, indicative, active, 3rd plural - were seeking/trying
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then/so
• *piasai*: aorist, infinitive, active - to seize/arrest
• *oudeis*: nominative, masculine, singular - no one/none
• *epebalen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd singular - laid/put/placed
• *cheira*: accusative, feminine, singular - hand
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/that/for
• *oupō*: adverb - not yet
• *elelythei*: pluperfect, indicative, active, 3rd singular - had come
• *hōra*: nominative, feminine, singular - hour/time

Word Meanings

• *ezētoun*: were seeking/were trying/were attempting (continuous action)
• *oun*: therefore/then/so/consequently
• *piasai*: to seize/to arrest/to capture
• *oudeis*: no one/nobody/not one person
• *epebalen*: laid/put/placed/cast
• *cheira*: hand
• *oupō*: not yet/still not
• *elelythei*: had come/had arrived (pluperfect tense)
• *hōra*: hour/time/appointed time

Referenced Verses

• John 8:20 : 20 These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man took him; because his hour was not yet come.
• John 10:39 : 39 They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand.
• John 7:6 : 6 Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.
• John 7:32 : 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.
• John 7:44-46 : 44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why {G5101} did ye not bring him? 46 The officers answered, Never man so spake.
• John 7:8 : 8 Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up {G3768} unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.
• John 7:19 : 19 Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
• John 8:37 : 37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed: yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.
• John 8:59 : 59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
• John 9:4 : 4 We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
• John 10:31 : 31 The Jews took up stones again to stone him.
• Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.
• Isa 46:10 : 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
• Matt 21:46 : 46 And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.
• Mark 11:18 : 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, for all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
• Luke 13:32-33 : 32 And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am perfected. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way to-day and to-morrow and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
• Luke 19:47-48 : 47 And he was teaching {G2596} daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him: 48 and they could not find what they might do; for the people all hung upon him, listening.
• Luke 20:19 : 19 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he spake this parable against them.
• Luke 22:53 : 53 When I was daily {G2596} with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
• John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.
• John 11:57 : 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.