John 7:45-46

John 7:45-46

[45] Then  came  the officers  to  the chief priests  and  Pharisees;  and  they  said  unto them,  not  brought  him?  [46] The officers  answered,  Never  man  spake  like  this  man. 

What does John 7:45-46 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

When the officers of the temple guard returned to the Sanhedrin without Jesus, the Sanhedrin members asked why they had not arrested Him (cf. John 7:32). The officers replied that no man (Gr. anthropos, emphatic in the Greek text) had ever spoken as Jesus did (cf. John 7:15). They, too, spoke more truly than they knew. Jesus was more than a man. Jesus" authority and wisdom obviously impressed them as well as the other people. They had gone to arrest Jesus with their weapons, but Jesus had arrested them with His words.
It may seem unusual that these officers would so weakly admit that they had failed in their mission, but they were not hardened Roman soldiers who carried out their orders as automatons. They were Levites whose interests were mainly religious. Their statement is another witness to the true identity of Jesus.