John 7:45
New International Version
Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

New Living Translation
When the Temple guards returned without having arrested Jesus, the leading priests and Pharisees demanded, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

English Standard Version
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”

Berean Standard Bible
Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

Berean Literal Bible
Therefore the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"

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

New King James Version
Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

New American Standard Bible
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

NASB 1995
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

NASB 1977
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

Legacy Standard Bible
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

Amplified Bible
Then the guards went [back] to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring Him [here with you]?”

Christian Standard Bible
Then the servants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”

American Standard Version
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And those guards came to the Chief Priests, and the Pharisees and the Priests said to them, “Why have you not brought him?”

Contemporary English Version
When the temple police returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, "Why didn't you bring Jesus here?"

Douay-Rheims Bible
The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

English Revised Version
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When the temple guards returned, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why didn't you bring Jesus?"

Good News Translation
When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why did you not bring him?"

International Standard Version
Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

Literal Standard Version
the officers came, therefore, to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

Majority Standard Bible
Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

New American Bible
So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?”

NET Bible
Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why didn't you bring him back with you?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then the temple police went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not arrest him?”

New Heart English Bible
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

Webster's Bible Translation
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?

Weymouth New Testament
Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"

World English Bible
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

Young's Literal Translation
the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, 'Wherefore did ye not bring him?'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
44Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him. 45Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?” 46“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.…

Cross References
Matthew 26:58
But Peter followed Him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. And he went in and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.

John 7:32
When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.

John 9:22
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

John 11:46
But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

John 11:47
Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the officers.

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…

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John 7
1. Jesus reproves the ambition and boldness of his kinsmen;
10. goes up from Galilee to the feast of tabernacles;
14. teaches in the temple.
40. Various opinions of him among the people.
45. The Pharisees are angry that their officers took him not,
50. and chide with Nicodemus for taking his side.














(45) Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees.--(Comp. Note on John 18:3.) They had been sent (John 7:32), not with a definite warrant to bring Him by force, but to watch their opportunity, and seize any pretext for doing so which may arise. "The chief priests and Pharisees" are the Sanhedrin who met (John 7:32), and, though it was a festival, seemed to have continued in session, expecting the return of their servants.

Why have ye not brought him?--Their question shows the object of the mission. It is asked in the bitterness of disappointed craft. In the presence of the multitude they dared not proceed by open force, and the influence they feared was every hour gaining ground. If their officers could have brought Him on some technical charge away from the people and into their own chamber, all would then have been in their own hands.

Verses 45, 46. - In ver. 32 we learn that Pharisees and chief priests had sent "officers" to lay hands on him, to seize their opportunity for an arrest; but, sharing somewhat the outburst of enthusiasm which wavered between his claims to be the Prophet or the Christ, and only subsided for a moment on a miserable and unveracious plea, they did not dare to execute the command of their masters. The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees (the absence of the article τούς before Φαρισαίους shows that they were regarded as one body, who had charged these officers to undertake the duty in which they signally failed); and they (ἐκεῖνοι, the latter) said to them, Why did ye not bring him? Foiled in their intention to carry out the order of the committee of the council, they return empty handed, and to some extent baffled and chagrined. They had fallen into the dominant enthusiasm of the crowd for a moment. They had heard the shouts which hailed him as the great Prophet, nay, as Messiah himself, and their reply, according to the curtailed text, was, Never man so spake. It matters little whether the additional clause, "as this Man speaks," was in the original text or not, the idea is the same; and it confirms the supposition to which we have often referred - that John only gives us the great sentences which the Divine Lord made the text of a discourse. An overwhelming impression was produced that the Speaker had a deep secret to disclose, vast treasure to bestow, unlimited power to meet the thirst of man, and even to make those who utterly yield to his influence the fountains of benedictions to others. An awe as of unseen things fell on the officers and the people. They could not resist the sense of benediction which, like some sacred perfume, some supernatural glamour, fell upon them in his reval words. "Never man thus spake." The whole experience is new and wonderful. "These sayings of the Prophet of Nazareth are more than words; they have living powers; they have confounded and disarmed us."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Then
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

officers
ὑπηρέται (hypēretai)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5257: From hupo and a derivative of eresso; an under-oarsman, i.e. subordinate.

returned
Ἦλθον (Ēlthon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

to
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

chief priests
ἀρχιερεῖς (archiereis)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 749: High priest, chief priest. From arche and hiereus; the high-priest; by extension a chief priest.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Pharisees,
Φαρισαίους (Pharisaious)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5330: Of Hebrew origin; a separatist, i.e. Exclusively religious; a Pharisean, i.e. Jewish sectary.

[who]
ἐκεῖνοι (ekeinoi)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1565: That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.

asked
εἶπον (eipon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

them,
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“Why
Διὰ (Dia)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

didn’t you bring
ἠγάγετε (ēgagete)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 71: A primary verb; properly, to lead; by implication, to bring, drive, go, pass, or induce.

Him {in}?”
αὐτόν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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