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Joh_7:50-51. The Pharisees in the Sanhedrim had expressed themselves as decisively and angrily against Jesus, as if His guilt had already been established. But Nicodemus, who had secretly been inclined towards Jesus since his interview with Him by night, now raises a protest, in which he calmly, plainly, and rightly points the excited doctors to the law itself (see Exo_23:1; Deu_1:16-17; Deu_19:15).
πρὸς αὐτούς ] to the Pharisees, Joh_7:47.
ὁ ἐλθὼν … αὐτῶν ] who had before come to Jesus, although he was one of them (i.e. of the Pharisees), Joh_3:1.
μὴ ὁ νόμος , κ . τ . λ .] The emphasis is on ὁ νόμος : “our law itself does not,” eta They had just denied that the people knew the law, and yet they were themselves acting contrary to the law.
τὸν ἄνθρ .] the man; the article denotes the person referred to in any given case; see on Joh_2:25. We are not to supply ὁ κρίτης to ἀκούσῃ (Deu_1:16-17) and γνῷ , for the identity of the subject is essential to the thought; but the law itself is regarded and personified as (through the judge) examining and discerning the facts of the case. For a like personification, see Plato, de Rep. vii p. 538 D. Comp. νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς from Pindar in Herod. iii. 38.
τί ποιεῖ ] what he doeth, what the nature of his conduct is.