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Among themselves (pros heautous). These Jewish leaders of Joh 7:32 talk among themselves about what Jesus said in a spirit of contempt (this man or fellow, houtos).
That (hoti). Almost result like hoti in Mat 8:27.
Will he go? (mē mellei poreuesthai). Negative answer expected in an ironical question, “Is he about to go?”
Unto the Dispersion among the Greeks (eis tēn diasporan tōn Hellēnōn). Objective genitive tōn Hellēnōn (of the Greeks) translated here “among,” because it is the Dispersion of Jews among the Greeks. Diaspora is from diaspeirō, to scatter apart (Act 8:1, Act 8:4). It occurs in Plutarch and is common in the lxx, in the N.T. only here, Jam 1:1; 1Pe 1:1. There were millions of these scattered Jews.
And teach the Greeks (kai didaskein tous Hellēnas). Confessing his failure to teach the Jews in Palestine, “thus ignorantly anticipating the course Christianity took; what seemed unlikely and impossible to them became actual” (Dods).