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Joh 12:16. Ταῦτα, these things) This His entry, of so momentous importance, and His prediction.-οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, understood not) The reason of the Divine proceedings and words is generally hidden from us at the beginning. Therefore accordingly we ought to believe and obey, and commit ourselves to the Divine governance [guidance]: ch. Joh 13:7, “What I do (washing their feet) thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter;” Joh 12:36, [Jesus to Simon] “Whither I go thou canst not follow Me now, but thou shalt follow Me afterwards;” Joh 16:4, “These things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you in the beginning;” Joh 2:22, “When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them (Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up), and they believed.” The whole work of faith is to embrace those things which we do not yet comprehend, but which hereafter we shall perceive.-τὸ πρῶτον, at the first) During the time of their discipleship, before that the Lord was glorified.-ἐδοξάσθη, was glorified) by His resurrection and ascension. For there were many things which at a subsequent time they understood.-τότε, then) That afterwards in a remarkable degree confirmed their faith.-ταῦτα, καὶ ταῦτα, these things, and these things) A sweet repetition, expressing the consonance between the prophecy and the event. At καί, and, understand ὅτι, that, as in ch. Joh 20:18, “Μαριάμ-ἀγγέλλουσα, ὅτι ἑώρακεν τὸν Κύριον, καὶ (sc. ὅτι) ταῦτα εἶπεν.” For the force of the verb, they remembered, falls more properly on “that they had done,” than upon “that these things were written.”-ἐποίησαν, had done) namely, both the disciples themselves, and the people: Joh 12:12.