Joh 12:42. Καί, also) not merely from among the common people.-Φαρισαίους, the Pharisees) These were most bitter, and formidable to the chief rulers themselves. [It seems, they were aiming at the greatest degree of power, actuated by a perverse zeal; especially those who were in the discharge of any public office.-V. g.]-οὐχ ὡμολόγουν, they did not confess Him) although their mind, convinced through belief, was urging them to confess Him. Not to confess, and to deny Him, differ.