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Joh 2:24. Αὐτός) Himself.-οὐκ ἐπίστευεν ἑαυτόν, He did not commit Himself) He did not descend to too great familiarity with them (Septuag., Job 29:24, εἰ ἐγέλων πρὸς αὐτοὺς, οὐκ ἐπίστευον, “If I laughed on them, they believed it not):” He did not reveal to them the things which it was not yet the full time for revealing. [In fact, He left the city, when the passover feast was either not yet, or scarcely, finished, for this reason, because those men were already meditating with themselves the plots, which broke out more openly, ch. Joh 5:16; Joh 5:18, “The Jews sought to slay Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day:” and also “said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God;” Joh 7:1, “He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him:” for it was not then as yet the time for His submitting Himself to encounter their hatred. Without doubt it was, as having a secret surmise of these things, that Nicodemus had the interview with Him by night.-Harm., p. 163.]-The antithesis to οὐκ ἐπίστευεν ἑαυτόν is ἐπίστευσαν, many believed, Joh 2:23.-αὐτόν) Himself, of Himself, knew all men.-γινώσκειν, knew) Often John so uses the word γινώσκειν, to know, of Jesus having cognizance of all things, without information given Him by man: ch. Joh 4:1, “The Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made-more disciples than John;” Joh 5:6, “When Jesus knew that he (the impotent man) had now been a long time in that case,” etc.