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Joh_5:10-13. Οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ] The Sanhedrim are here meant; see Joh_5:15; Joh_5:33. They never once mention the healing; with hostile coldness they only watch for their point of attack; “Quaerunt non quod mirentur, sed quod calumnientur,” Grotius.
ὁ ποιήσας , etc., and ἐκεῖνος are in the mouth of the man who was healed an appeal to the authority which, as a matter of fact, his Saviour must possess; there is something defiant in the words, so natural in the first realization of his wonderful cure.
ὁ ἄνθρωπος ] contemptuous. Ast, Lex. Plat. I. p. 178.
ἐξένευσεν ] He withdrew (see Dorvill. ad Char. p. 273; Schleusner, Thes. II. 293), i.e. when this encounter with the Jews began. As He wished to avoid the scene which would occur with the crowd who were in the place, He conveyed Himself away (not pluperfect).