"Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?" — John 7:45

John 7:45 · KJV

“Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?”

— John 7:45

Verse 44

And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

Verse 46

The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

John 7 — Context

So there was a division among the people because of him.

And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?

The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?

Cross References

John 7:32

The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.

Acts 5:21-27

And when they heard {that}, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.