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Joh_7:30. Οὖν ] Because He had so clearly asserted His divine origin and mission, His adversaries regarded this as blasphemy (comp. Joh_5:18).
The subject of ἐζήτουν is Ἰουδαῖοι , the hierarchy, as is self-evident from the words and from the contrasted statement of Joh_7:31.
καί ] as in Joh_7:28.
ὅτι οὔπω , κ . τ . λ .] because the hour appointed for Him (by God—the hour when He was to fall under the power of His enemies) was not yet come; comp. Joh_8:20. The reason here assigned is that higher religious apprehension of the history, which does not, however, contradict or exclude the immediate historical cause, viz. that through fear—not of conscience (Hengstenberg, Godet), but of the party who were favourably inclined to Christ, Joh_7:31—they dared not yet lay hands on Him. But John knows that the threads upon which the outward history of Jesus runs, and by which it is guided, unite in the counsels of God. Comp. Luthardt, I. 160.