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Joh_7:11-12. Οὖν ] For He did not come with the Galilean travellers.
οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ] not all the people (Hengstenberg, Baeumlein), but the opposing hierarchy; Joh_6:41; Joh_6:52, Joh_7:13; Joh_7:15. Their search is prompted by malice, not by aimless curiosity (Luthardt); see Joh_7:1; Joh_7:13. On ἐκεῖνος , which means the well-known absent one, Luther well remarks: “Thus contemptuously can they speak of the man, that they cannot almost name Him.” The people’s judgment of Him was a divided one, not frank and free, but timid, and uttered half in a whisper ( γογγυσμός , murmuring, Joh_7:32).
Observe the change of number: ἐν τοῖς ὄχλοις : among the multitudes (the plural here only in John); τὸν ὄχλον : the people.
ἀγαθός ] upright, a man of honour, no demagogue, seeking to make the people believe falsely that He was the Messiah. Comp. Mat_27:63.