44Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.


In Context

41 Others said, "He is the Christ."

42 Still others asked, "How can the Christ come from Galilee? Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David's family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?"

43 Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.

44 Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?"

46 "No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards declared.

John 7:44 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:44And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:44And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:44And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:44But some of them desired to take him, but no one laid hands upon him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:44And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:44And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:44Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:44And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:44And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.