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Mat 15:1.[675] Οἱ ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων, which were of Jerusalem) Who appeared to excel in authority and zeal, having come such a long way.[676]
[675] Τότε, then) By this particle, the narration of the events which had happened before and after the Passover is connected together: from which we may infer that Jesus, at that time, had not gone up to Jerusalem.-Harm., p. 340. It was at a time most unseasonable that the hypocrites made an oblique attack on Him, starting a question, high sounding, no doubt, but after all ending in mere minutiæ.-V. g.
[676] After the feast of the Passover had been celebrated at Jerusalem.-Harm., p. 340.