Joh_11:57. With the explanatory
δέ
(
καί
is spurious) the particular circumstance is now added, on account of which men so greatly doubted of His coming.
δεδώκεισαν
] comes first with emphasis. Already had the directions of the rulers in question been given.
ἵνα
object, and therewith contents of the
ἐντολαί
, the issuing of which we are to think of as the fruit of the sitting, Joh_11:47 ff., and of the further deliberations, Joh_11:53.