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Joh_12:37. At the close of the public ministry of Jesus there now follows a general observation on its results in respect to faith in Him, as far as Joh_12:50.
τοσαῦτα ] not so great (Lücke, De Wette, and several others), but so many,[118] Joh_6:9, Joh_14:9, Joh_21:11. Comp. the admissions of the Jews themselves, Joh_7:31, Joh_11:47. The multitude of the miracles, i.e. the so-often-repeated miraculous demonstration of His Messianic δόξα , must have convinced them (comp. Joh_20:30), had they not been blinded and hardened by a divine destiny. The reference, however, of τοσαῦτα is not: so many as have hitherto been related, for our Gospel contains the fewest miraculous narratives,—but it lies in the notoriety of the great multitude in general. Comp. Joh_14:9; 1Co_14:10; Heb_4:7.
ἔμπροσθ . αὐτ .] before their eyes.
οὐκ ἐπίστ . εἰς αὐτ .] summary statement.
[118] Comp. on the distinction between the two notions, the phrase current in the classics, τοσαῦτά τε καὶ τοιαῦτα , Heindorf, ad Plat. Gorg. p. 456 C.