Joh 6:66. Πολλοί, many) By this means their number was cleared of the unworthy, and made the more select [and this, in the very place (Capernaum we may suppose) in which He had sojourned previously for the longest time.-Harm., p. 337]. A promiscuous multitude is not of so much consequence as is sincerity. [This was a most severe purification.-V. g.]