Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
After He defended His claim to be the Son of God by pointing to His works as evidence that the Father was in Him and He in the Father, the Jews again tried to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp and they failed to take Him. This was one of many repeated times He freed Himself when His enemies tried to seize Him, and their repeated attempts to stone or arrest Him and to silence or kill Him were foiled and could not stop His influence among the people. They hated Him for exposing their hypocritical pretensions, tearing aside rigorous rites that hid moral deformity, and teaching pure religion that condemned hollow piety. As He taught in parables they were carried away by His illustrations and pronounced judgment against themselves, and when truth was brought home to their hearts they thirsted for revenge for His pointed rebukes, tried to provoke Him to say or do something they could condemn, were filled with rage, and took up stones to cast at Him.
As the light of the world and the greatest witness for truth the world has ever seen, He when necessary spoke keen and cutting truths like a two-edged sword that went home to the conscience with force and reproved sins, so the priests and rulers could not bear His words and again and again planned to put Him to death. Behind the enraged multitude, Satan and his angels were busy inspiring unbelief, hate and scorn and urging them on to take the life of the Son of God. When they sought to take His life He quietly withdrew so they lost sight of Him, departed to other places, and was guarded and borne away to safety by angels in a supernatural hiding from the sight of the multitude.
Judas counted on that power of self-deliverance, believing Christ would not permit Himself to be arrested now but would deliver Himself as before, so he betrayed Him to teach Him a lesson and make Him treat him with due respect, not knowing he was giving Christ up to death. Afterward He went across the Jordan to the place where John had first baptized, and many people came to Him there and believed that John's words about Him were true. His leaving Jerusalem to save His life teaches the duty to take care of life for Christ's sake and not to place oneself unbidden in danger, because Christ wants His followers to live to teach and help others, including laboring where prejudice keeps other workers from reaching souls with precious truths in the simplicity of Christ.
After He defended His claim to be the Son of God by pointing to His works as evidence that the Father was in Him and He in the Father, the Jews again tried to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp and they failed to take Him. This was one of many repeated times He freed Himself when His enemies tried to seize Him, and their repeated attempts to stone or arrest Him and to silence or kill Him were foiled and could not stop His influence among the people. They hated Him for exposing their hypocritical pretensions, tearing aside rigorous rites that hid moral deformity, and teaching pure religion that condemned hollow piety. As He taught in parables they were carried away by His illustrations and pronounced judgment against themselves, and when truth was brought home to their hearts they thirsted for revenge for His pointed rebukes, tried to provoke Him to say or do something they could condemn, were filled with rage, and took up stones to cast at Him.
As the light of the world and the greatest witness for truth the world has ever seen, He when necessary spoke keen and cutting truths like a two-edged sword that went home to the conscience with force and reproved sins, so the priests and rulers could not bear His words and again and again planned to put Him to death. Behind the enraged multitude, Satan and his angels were busy inspiring unbelief, hate and scorn and urging them on to take the life of the Son of God. When they sought to take His life He quietly withdrew so they lost sight of Him, departed to other places, and was guarded and borne away to safety by angels in a supernatural hiding from the sight of the multitude.
Judas counted on that power of self-deliverance, believing Christ would not permit Himself to be arrested now but would deliver Himself as before, so he betrayed Him to teach Him a lesson and make Him treat him with due respect, not knowing he was giving Christ up to death. Afterward He went across the Jordan to the place where John had first baptized, and many people came to Him there and believed that John's words about Him were true. His leaving Jerusalem to save His life teaches the duty to take care of life for Christ's sake and not to place oneself unbidden in danger, because Christ wants His followers to live to teach and help others, including laboring where prejudice keeps other workers from reaching souls with precious truths in the simplicity of Christ.