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Joh_11:56. The people, owing to the sensation which Jesus had in so many ways already aroused, and the edict of their spiritual superiors against Him (Joh_11:57), have taken a lively interest in the question, whether He will venture, as heretofore, to come to the feast. Their anxious question is a double question; What think you? (do you think) that He certainly will not come? Since He has not performed the pilgrimage with any of them, and is not yet present, His coming is strongly doubted of among them. Lücke: what do you think (in reference to this), that He does not, etc. But on that view His not coming would be already presupposed as certain, which would be premature. To understand the words in the sense that He is not come (Erasmus, Castalio, Paulus, and several others; not the Vulgate) is grammatically incorrect. The passages quoted by Hartung (Partikell. II. p. 156) do not apply here.[100] See Ellendt, Lex. Soph. II. p. 412.
The inquiry is interchanged in the court of the temple, because it was there that His appearance was to be looked for; while ἑστηκότες vividly represents the groups as standing together.
[100] Tholuck (who otherwise follows our interpretation) incorrectly adduces Polyb. iii. 111. 1. In that passage μή stands with the perf. quite as in Gal_4:11.