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Joh_10:24. Οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ] Here too the standing party of opposition.
ἐκύκλωσαν ] encircled Him. The word graphically sets forth the urgency and obtrusiveness of the Jews; but neither implies that Jesus had been deserted by His followers (Lange), nor represents the Ἰουδαῖοι as pushing in between Him and His disciples, and so enclosing Him in their midst (Godet).
ἔλεγον αὐτῷ ] “This speak they out of a false heart, with a view to accusing and destroying Him,” Luther. According to Hengstenberg, they really vacillated between an inclination and disinclination to believe. But see Joh_10:26; Joh_10:31. They desire an express and thoroughly direct declaration, though not as if making a last attempt to induce Jesus to take up the rôle of a political Messiah (Lange).
τ . ψυχ . ἡμ . αἴρεις ] αἴρειν not in the sense of take away (Nonnus: ὑποκλέπτεις φρένα ; Elsner: enecas); but in that of lift up. It denotes to excite the soul, which, according to the connection, may be due to very different mental influences (Eur. Ion. 928; Hec. 69; Aesch. Sept. 198; Soph. O. R. 914; Pro_19:18; Philo, de Monarch. I. p. 218; Joseph. Antt. 3:2. 3; 3:5. 1); in this case, by strained expectation, which thou causest us. The explanation: ἀναρτᾷς μεταξὺ πίστεως κ . ἀπιστίας (Euth. Zigabenus, and many others), is an approximation to the sense, but is not the precise signification of the words.
εἰ σὺ εἶ , etc.] if thou, and so forth, as in Luk_22:67.