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21. ἀλλά. But be of good cheer, it is διὰ τὸ ὄνομα μου. This thought is to turn their suffering into joy: Act 5:41; Act 21:13; 2Co 12:10; Gal 6:14; Php 2:17-18; 1Pe 4:14. With οὐκ οἴδασιν comp. Joh 7:28, Joh 16:3, Joh 17:25. They not merely did not know that God had sent Jesus; they did not know God Himself, for their idea of Him was radically wrong. And this ignorance is moral; it has its root in hatred of good: it is not the intellectual darkness of the heathen.