30. “Therefore,” in consequence of His saying that He came from God the Father, whom they knew not, they, blinded from malice and obduracy, instead of being convinced, were more embittered against Him, and would put Him to death, because the people preferred Him to themselves, and regarded Him as the Messias. But, His power restrained them, because the hour marked out in the eternal decrees, for His suffering death, had not yet arrived—“his hour,” the time which, of His own free will, in obedience