John Bengel Commentary - John 7:27 - 7:27

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John Bengel Commentary - John 7:27 - 7:27


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Joh 7:27. Ἀλλά, [howbeit], but) They believed in human authority, in rejecting Christ: they notwithstanding do not believe in human authority, in acknowledging Christ. Here may be observed the Jewish prejudices. The reasoning of the Jews was to this effect; the Christ has an unknown parentage; Jesus has not an unknown parentage: therefore Jesus is not the Christ. The Lord answers at Joh 7:28, “Ye both know Me, and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of Myself,” etc.-τοῦτον οἴδαμεν, we know this man) ch. Joh 6:42, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know.”-οὐδείς, no man) That really happened in the case of this, the true Messiah. Foll, v., “He that sent Me is true, whom ye know not.” Ch. Joh 9:29, “We know that God spake unto Moses, but as for this fellow, we know not from whence He is.” For not even now did they know His country. Joh 7:42, “Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem?” when in fact Jesus was born at Bethlehem.[194] [Some one may fancy, that it is an idle question, whether the circumstances of the birth of Christ be known or unknown; but a false opinion on a very slight point was in fact sufficient to prove the greatest obstacle to faith. One may observe the same result in the case of various unsound maxims, by which the world suffers itself to be held in bondage.-V. g.]

[194] And not in Galilee as they supposed.-E. and T.