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This multitude (ho ochlos houtos). The Pharisees had a scorn for the amhaaretz or “people of the earth” (cf. our “clod-hoppers”) as is seen in rabbinic literature. It was some of the ochlos (multitude at the feast especially from Galilee) who had shown sympathy with Jesus (Joh 7:12, Joh 7:28.).
Which knoweth not the law (ho mē ginoskōn). Present active articular participle of ginōskō with mē usual negative of the participle in the Koiné. “No brutish man is sin-fearing, nor is one of the people of the earth pious” (Aboth, II. 6). See the amazement of the Sanhedrin at Peter and John in Act 4:13 as “unlettered and private men” (agrammatoi kai idiōtai). No wonder the common people (ochlos) heard Jesus gladly (Mar 12:37). The rabbis scouted and scorned them.
Are accursed (eparatoi eisin). Construction according to sense (plural verb and adjective with collective singular ochlos). Eparatoi is old verbal adjective from eparaomai, to call down curses upon, here only in the N.T.