gone up, then went attending him, lest he should stir up the jealousy of he also up unto the the sanhedrim. feast, not openly, but as it were in b secret. disputing, arguing, among them, some affirm11 Then the Jews ing him to be an upright man, and one that taught sought him at the the truth; others denied, and said that he was a false feast, and said, prophet, and seduced the people. Where is he? by way of oration to the people, (see note [a],) 12 And there was either for him or against him, because the people much murmuring among the people were so divided in their opinions about him, that concerning him for either speaking for him or against him would have some said, He is a been perilous. 13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him good man: others 14. Now on some middle day of the feast, on one said, Nay; but he of the eight days of which the feast consisted, but deceiveth the people. neither on the first nor the last of them, (ver. 37.) 15. How comes he to understand the books of for fear of the Jews. the law and scriptures so well, having not been 14 Now about brought up in the schools of the prophets? (see note feast Jesus went up [g] Matt. v.) the midst of the into the temple, and taught. How knoweth this What I teach is not from myself, but from God, that hath sent me. 15 And the Jews 17. Any man that hath a willingness to do God's marvelled, saying, will, how contrary soever it be to his own, that hath man 1letters, having a readiness to serve God in God's way, and is not wedded to his own, (see note [d] ch. vi.) that man, 16 Jesus answered and none but he, is likely to pass a right judgment on them, and said, "My doctrine is not mine, my doctrine, whether it be of God or no. never learned? but his that sent me. 18. For that man will thus judge: He that pre17 If any man will tends to be sent by God when he is not, always seeks do his will, he shall his own advantages, somewhat of glory or profit to know of the doc- himself; but he that labours only the bringing honour trine, whether it be to God, and in pursuit of that doth what is most conI speak of myself. trary to his own interests, conceals nothing, though 18 He that speak- it cost him never so dear, to declare it he is worth eth of himself seek- believing, (or deserves to be believed,) having no eth his own glory false design in what he doth, no deceit or guile in of God, or whether but he that seeketh him. : him. your own be his glory that sent him, the same is 19. But it is otherwise with you: you are not of true, and no un- that making, ver. 17. That law which righteousness is in loved Moses gave you, and for the maintaining of which you have so much zeal, and hate me as a breaker of it, ye do not yourselves observe, ye do not 19 Did not Moses (the most of you) live according to the rules of it. give you the law, If ye did, ye would not be so forward to embrue and yet none of you keepeth the law? your hands in my blood, who have no way offended Why go ye about against you or that; this concludes you not likely to judge what doctrine is of God. A man must have ♦ books, learning, the scriptures : the Syriac reads, the book : see note [g]. to kill me? 20 The people an- purged and regulated affections to do so: (see note [d] swered and said, ch. vi.) [b] Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all 5 marvel. art certainly mad, to talk thus: who goeth f I cured one on the sabbath day, and I would do so, were angry, (ver. 23.) 22. I shall give you an account of this, by re22 Moses [c]there- membering you of circumcision given you by Moses fore gave unto you (not by Moses originally: but in practice before his circumcision; (not time in Abraham, to whom it was commanded by Moses, but of the God). Now this law you observe so carefully, that, fathers;) and ye on if the eighth day fall upon a sabbath day, you then the sabbath day cir- circumcise the child on that day for all that. 6 because it is of cumcise a man. 23 If a man on the circumcision, 23. If then you do a wounding, bloody work sabbath day receive about a part of a man in circumcision on the sabbath that day, and yet think that you break not the law of the the law of Moses sabbath by so doing, may not I, without being hated should not be brok- and opposed by you, do a work of charity and mercy to an entire whole man, in working a cure on him on the sabbath day? en; are ye angry at me, 7 because I have made a man every whit whole on the 24. Judge according to the depth of reason and sabbath day? justice, and not on every slight colour of probability. 24 Judge not ac- whom the chief of the Jews would fain put to cording to the ap- death? pearance, but judge righteous judgment. 26. And behold, he openly in the temple, in the 25 Then said some presence of all, (see note [a],) disputeth, and avows of them of Jerusa- his actions; and they have nothing to lay to his lem, Is not this he, charge, which he doth not give a most satisfying account of. Are they of the sanhedrim persuaded and 26 But, lo, he satisfied in mind that he is indeed the Messias sent speaketh 8 boldly, from God? whom they seek to kill? thing unto him. Do and they say no- 27. This were very strange; for we are assured of the the rulers know in- contrary, in that we know his birth and parentage: deed that this is the but for the Messias, we are taught that he must be 9 very Christ? one whose parentage is not known. 27 Howbeit we 28, 29. To this, Jesus answered aloud, I know your know this man whence he is: but meaning when you say you know whence I am, when 10 Christ com- viz., that you know the family whereof I come; but eth, no man know- there is a farther truth also in your words; by my eth whence he is. works and name and speeches, you may, if 28 Then cried Je- know whence I am, (Just. Mart. qu. 140. ad orth.,) you will, sus in the temple as and indeed I come not in mine own name, nor on he taught, saying, Ye both know me, mine own errand, but on his whose testimony of me 5 because of it: for Theophylact reads, dià TOûTO. 6 that, 8TI. 7 that I cured a whole man, or made whole a whole man, ὅτι ὅλον ἄνθρωπον ὑγιῆ ἐποιήσα. publicly, παρρησίᾳ. S ? truly the Christ, or, the Christ: for many ancient copies omit ảλŋoŵs, truly. Christ, ὁ Χριστός. 10 the : and ye know whence cannot deceive; but him you do not so know as to I am and I am not be competent judges what is his will, what is lawful he that sent me is and acceptable in his sight, what not (see ver. 23); true, whom ye know but I, who come with commission from him, do thus come of myself, but not. 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. 30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, be h cause his hour was not yet come. 31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, iWhen Christ com know him. h the time wherein he was to suffer being not yet come, God restrained, or diverted them from it. If he be not the Messias, it is strange: for when eth, will he do more the Messias comes, he will not, cannot in all probamiracles than these bility, do greater miracles than he hath done already. which this man hath done? 32 The Phari sees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and k the Pharisees and k upon this intelligence, the Pharisees, very zealous the chief priests sent of their traditions, and they of the sanhedrim fearing officers to take him. their authority might be diminished by him, sent— 33 Then said Je sus unto them, 'Yet It is but a small time that I shall continue here, a little while am I.and when I depart I shall return to my Father from with you, and then whom I came. I go unto him that 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come. 35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go "unto [d] the m whither I go, (ch. xiii. 33.) n " to the Hellenists? will he preach among the 12 dispersed among Jews in Europe, whose chief city was Alexandria ? the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? 36 What manner of 36. What is the meaning of that speech that he said——— saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not and where find me 11 Many copies omit avroîs, unto them. 12 dispersion of the Greeks. thither ye can I am, 37 In the last day, 37. On the last day of the feast of tabernacles, that great day of which was a day of solemn assembly, (see note [d] [e] the feast, Jesus ch. xix.,) and on which it was the manner of the stood and cried, say- Jews to pour out water solemnly on the altar, Jesus ing, If any man thirst, let him come on that occasion proclaimed aloud, saying, If unto me, and drink. • as it shall be with him according to what is said, 38 He that be- Isa. lviii. 11, He shall be like a spring of water, lieveth on me, whose water, by conduits, shall from within break the scripture hath said, out of his forth in great abundance; that is, being filled with belly shall flow ri- the Spirit of Christ, shall not be able to contain, but vers of living water. break forth into all Christian actions, and preach the 39 (But this spake gospel with all zeal. he of the Spirit, which they that be 39. (This saying of Christ belonged to the descent lieve on him should of the Holy Ghost, Acts ii. (see note [a] Acts i. and receive: for the Ho- note [a] Acts xxiii.) which was to be after his ascenly Ghost was not sion, and not before.) yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) 40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, 13 Of a truth this is the prophet. P that prophet that Moses foretold us of (though that he should be the Messias they did not all resaid, solve). 41 Others 42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was ? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him. q a very Messias. r David's parents dwelt? 44 And some of 44. And some of the officers sent, ver. 32, would them would have have taken taken him; but no man laid hands on him. 45 ¶ Then came "the officers to the the ministers of the sanhedrim, sent by them to chief priests and apprehend him, back again without having done it ; Pharisees; and they and they said— said unto them, Why 13 This is truly the prophet, Οὗτός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς ὁ προφήτης. have ye not brought him? 46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. 47 Then answered them the Pharisees, 14 Are ye also deceived? 48 Have any of the 48. Have any of the sanhedrim, or the more famous rulers or of the Pha- learned men, believed on him? risees believed on him? 15 49 But [g] this 49. But this rout, which have never studied the people who know- law, are apt to run into all giddiness, and follow any eth not the law are false teacher. cursed. 50 Nicodemus saith 50. Nicodemus, one of the sanhedrim, he that was unto them, (he that afraid to come to Jesus in the daytime, but came in came to Jesus by the night, ch. iii. 1, said unto them, night, being one of them,) 51 Doth our law 51. This is too hasty a prejudice against him; in judge any man, be- all reason you ought to hear what he can say for fore it 16 hear him, himself, and what any can witness against him. Our and know what he law proceeds not against any before we have examined him and taken cognizance of his matter. doeth ? 52 They answered and said unto him, t Art thou also of t Art thou, who art one of the sanhedrim, a follower Galilee? Search, or favourer of this Galilæan? Examine all times, you 17 and look: for shall never find that Galilee hath brought forth a riseth no prophet. prophet: see ch. i. 46. [h] out of Galilee a 53 [i] And every man went unto his own house. unto the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman a taken 53. And they dissolved the assembly, or court, and departed. a CHAP. VIII. deprehended in the act of adultery, and brought in adultery; and her forth as to judgment. And they say when they had set her in the midst, 14 Have ye also been seduced ? Μὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς πεπλάνησθε ; 15 multitude. 16 hear from himself, ἀκούσῃ παρ' αὐτοῦ. . 17 and see that no prophet hath arisen out of Galilee, kal fde, ὅτι οὐκ ἐγήγερται. |