Homilies on the Gospel of John

“Then they sought to take Him, and no man laid his hand upon Him, because His hour was not yet come.”

Do you see that they are invisibly restrained, and their anger bridled? But wherefore says It not, that He had restrained them invisibly, but, “Because His hour was not yet come”? The Evangelist was minded to speak more humanly and in a lowlier strain, so that Christ might be deemed to be also Man. For because Christ everywhere speaks of sublime matters, he therefore intersperses expressions of this kind. And when Christ says, “I am from Him,” He speaks not as a Prophet who learns, but as seeing Him, and being with Him.