11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?



Ver. 11. Where is he?] Not, "where is Jesus?" They could not find in their hearts to call him by his name, they were so full of malice against him. So Joseph’s brethren called him not Joseph, but the Dreamer: Saul asked not for David, but the son of Jesse. After Stephen Brune the martyr was put to death, his adversaries commanded it to be cried, That none should make any more mention of him, under pain of heresy. And ubicunque invenitur nomen Calvini, deleatur, whereever, the name of Calvin is found, let it be removed, saith the Index expurgatorius. But what saith our Saviour, "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake," Luk_6:22. The wise historian observed, that the statues of Brutus and Cassias, Eo praefulgebant, quod non visebantur. They shine forth there because they were not visited. (Tacit. Annal.) And Cato said, he had rather men should question why he had no statue or monument erected to him than why he had.