John 8:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

These words spake Jesus in the treasury Which was a certain part of the women's court, where the chests were placed for receiving the offerings of those who came to worship; and consequently was a place of great concourse. And no man laid hands on him Though he so plainly intimated that God was his Father, and charged the Jews with being ignorant of him, while they boasted that he was in a peculiar sense their God; yet, their spirits were kept under such a powerful, though secret restraint, that no one seized him; which was the more wonderful, as it was a place much frequented by his greatest enemies, and from which it would not have been easy for him to have escaped without a miracle; for his hour was not yet come In which he was, by divine permission, to be delivered into the hands of these wicked men.