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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Then they sought to take Him, and no man laid his hand upon Him, because His hour was not yet come." Seest thou that they are invisibly restrained, and their anger bridled? But wherefore saith 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 speaketh of sublime matters, he therefore intersperseth expressions of this kind.
Cyril of Alexandria
CHAPTER I. That human affairs are not, according to the unlearned surmises of the Greeks, subject as of necessity to the Hours, but that of our own choice we advance both to good and to the contrary: and that we are directed by the Will of God. The Pharisees cut with His reproaches, and perceiving that their silence in those matters was not without damage to their own stubbornness, and was of benefit to the multitudes (for they were being persuaded of the duty of at length acknowledging that He is Christ), are carried along unto …
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Evangelist, showing that they were invisibly restrained and that He suffered voluntarily, says that they sought to seize Him and yet no one laid a hand on Him. "His hour had not yet come" — this is said not because He is subject to the conditions of time, but because He does all things at the fitting and proper time and hour. When He deemed it timely to suffer, that is, when the proper and fitting time had come, then He delivered Himself to the crucifiers. For He does and arranges all things at proper and fitting times. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Then they sought to take Him: but no man laid hands on Him, because His hour was not yet come;" that is, because He was not willing. For what is this. "His hour was not yet come"? The Lord was not born under fate. This is not to be believed concerning thee, much less concerning Him by whom thou wast made. If thy hour is His good will, what is His hour but His good will? He meant not therefore an hour in which He should be forced to die, but that in which He would deign to be put to death. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then he considers the effect of his teaching. First, in the people; then on the Pharisees (v 32). He does two things with the first. First, he shows the effect of this teaching on those of the people who were ill-willed; secondly, on those who were favorable (v 31). He does three things concerning the first. First, he mentions the evil intention of the people; secondly, that they were hindered in carrying out their plan; and thirdly, he mentions the reason why they were hindered. …
Bonaventure
"They sought therefore to seize him." Here is noted the obstinacy of those who were confuted. For because he had shown them to be liars and ignorant, therefore, confirmed in evil and unable to resist his word, "they sought therefore to seize him," namely certain leaders, as Chrysostom says. But nevertheless their malice did not achieve its effect, by divine power preventing it. …
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