Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
His arguments have cooled the Jews and they have dropped their stones to the ground, but their intentions are still the same; their methods of achieving them are all that have changed. They now try to seize Him in order to put Him on trial and legally kill Him, but God’s timing can not be subverted by anyone.
Matthew Henry rightly notes that “He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to deliver the godly out of their temptations, and to make a way for them to escape.” If we are walking in the will of God, we need have no fear.