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30. διελθὼν διὰ μέσου αὐτῶν. This is rather a mirabile than a miraculum, since no miracle is asserted or necessarily implied. The inherent majesty and dignity of our Lord’s calm ascendency, seem to have been sufficient on several occasions to overawe and cow His enemies; Joh 7:30; Joh 7:46; Joh 8:59; Joh 10:39-40; Joh 18:6 (see Psa 18:29; Psa 37:33). He left them this proof of His ascendency. As Theophylact points out, this was οὐ τὸ παθεῖν φεύγων, ἀλλὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἀναμένων.
ἐπορεύετο. Probably never to return again. Nazareth lies in a secluded valley out of the ordinary route between Gennesareth and Jerusalem. If after thirty sinless years among them they could reject Him, clearly they had not known the day of their visitation. This incident furnishes the most striking illustration of St John’s sad comment, “He came unto His own possessions (τὰ ἴδια) and His own people (οἱ ἴδιοι) received Him not” (Joh 1:11).