<p>8:59 <i>Therefore they took up stones to cast at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple</i>- They wanted to kill Him for blasphemy, as in 10:31,33; for He had just alluded to the &quot;I am&quot; Name of Yahweh. Perhaps He miraculously avoided them (as in Lk. 4:30), or maybe as in:20 the very public spotlight upon them somehow held them back from stoning Him to death. It has been suggested that the stones were the stones left around as a result of the temple construction project. Again we see that the Lord gave His life, and it was not taken from Him.</p>