Yet ye seek to kill me (alla zēteite me apokteinai). As at the recent feast (Joh 7:20, Joh 7:25, Joh 7:30, Joh 7:32; Joh 8:20). Some of these very professed believers were even now glowering with murderous vengeance.
Hath not free course in you (ou chōrei en humin). Intransitive use of chōreō, old verb from chōros (space, place), to have space or room for. They would not abide in Christ’s word (Joh 8:31). They had no longer room for his word when once they understood the spiritual aspect of his message. Jerusalem was now just like Galilee once before (Joh 6:60-66).