Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 7:49
But this populace, who know not the law — This ignorant rabble; are accursed — Are by that ignorance exposed to the curse of being thus seduced.
But this populace, who know not the law — This ignorant rabble; are accursed — Are by that ignorance exposed to the curse of being thus seduced.
Verse 49. _THIS PEOPLE_] Ὁ οχλος, _This rabble_. The common people were treated by the Pharisees with the most sovereign contempt: they were termed עם הארץ _am ha-arets, people of the_ _earth_; and...
THIS PEOPLE - The word here translated “people” is the one commonly rendered “the multitude.” It is a word expressive of contempt, or, as we would say, the rabble. It denotes the scorn which they felt...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. My Time is not Yet Come. (John 7:1 .)_ 2. Departure from Galilee; Sought by the Jews. (John 7:10 .) 3. In the Temple Teaching. (John 7:14 .) 4. Opposition to Him. ...
THE LAST DAY OF THE FEAST. The Feast of Tabernacles, the feast of the ingathering at the end of summer, lasted seven days in early times (Deuteronomy 16:13). An eighth day was added later (Leviticus 2...
THIS PEOPLE... ARE ACCURSED. Their argument was, "Not the Sanhedrim, not the powerful and religious Pharisees, but the rabble are the believers upon him. They are utterly ignorant of the law and are...
So the officers came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. They said to them: "Why did you not bring him here?" The attendants answered: "Never did a man speak as he speaks." So the Pharisees answer...
NOT MAN'S TIME BUT GOD'S (John 7:1-9)...
CURSED. laid under. curse. Greek _epikataratos._ Only here and Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:10; Galatians 1:13. Found often in the Septuagint and in the _Papyri._ See Deissmann's _Light, &c._ p. 93....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_this people_ Very contemptuous; _this_ MULTITUDE _of yours_(comp. 35, 36), whose ignorant fancies you prefer to our deliberate decisions. _who knoweth not the law_ The form of negative used implies...
Ὁ ὌΧ. ΟὟΤΟΣ. Very contemptuous; _this_ MULTITUDE _of yours, iste_ (35, 36), whose ignorant fancies you prefer to our deliberate decisions. Ὁ ΜῊ ΓΙΝ. The μή implies censure; knoweth not when it ought...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSES...
VER 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,...
_DIVISION OVER WHO JESUS IS -- JOHN 7:40-53:_ There was division over the identify of Jesus. Some said He was a fraud and deceiver. Others said that He was the Prophet or that He was the Christ. He wa...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать; здесь: близко познакомиться, усвоить, ΕΠΆΡΑΤΟΣ (G1944) обвиняемый. Примеры того, как ученые рабби презирали тех, кто не соблюдал закон, _см._ в...
ARE YE ALSO DECEIVED? &C.— "Ye who have the advantage of knowing our sentiments, and are acquainted with the idea which we entertain concerning this person; surely you cannot be so weak as to be thus...
DISCOURSE ON THE LIVING WATER _Text 7:37-52_ 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 38 He that belie...
THE OLD SABBATH CONTROVERSY RENEWED _Text 7:14-53_ 14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How knoweth thi...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 7:32-53 The following is a general Outline of the passage which is to be before us:— Before examining in detail the dosing verses of John 7 this will be the bes...
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. BUT THIS PEOPLE, [ ho (G3588) ochlos (G3793) houtos (G3778)] - rather, 'this multitude,' this ignorant rabble. Pity these important distinctions...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES John 7:1 to John 10:21. Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6, delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go up to Jeru...
CURSED] RV 'accursed,' viz. because of their ignorance. The contempt of the Pharisees for those who have not received a rabbinical training is a touch true to life. 50, 51. Nicodemus has made some adv...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 JESUS AND HIS BROTHERS 7:1-9 V1 After this, Jesus stayed in *Galilee. He travelled from village to village. He decide...
BUT THIS PEOPLE WHO KNOWETH NOT THE LAW... — The words express “Those people there, among whom you have been, and with whose opinion you have been coinciding, instead of holding the authoritative opin...
CHAPTER 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of...
_Anger of the Sanhedrim on receiving the report of their officers_....
THE BLINDNESS OF PREJUDICE John 7:40-53 These short descriptions of the impressions made on His hearers by the discourses of Jesus indicate the double development which was resulting from His minist...
So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two year...
_But this multitude... are accursed; i.e. falls under the curses of the law, by being seduced and led away by false preachers. (Witham)_...
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS SENT TO ARREST HIM John 7:45-49. _“Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why did you not lead Him along? The officers responded, Neve...
“ _The officers therefore returned to the chief-priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, Why have you not brought him?_ 46. _The officers answered, Never man spake like this man._ 47. _The Pharis...
1. THE TRUE SOURCE: 7:37-52. John reports the discourse of Jesus and gives the explanation of it (John 7:37-39); he describes the different impressions of the multitude (John 7:40-44); he gives an acc...
III. ON AND AFTER THE GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST: 7:37-8:59. The last and great day of the feast has arrived; Jesus lays aside the apologetic form which until now He has given to His teachings. His word a...
THIRD SECTION: 7:1-8:59. THE STRIFE AT ITS HIGHEST STAGE OF INTENSITY AT JERUSALEM. Seven months had elapsed without any appearance of Jesus at Jerusalem. The exasperation of the rulers, whose murdero...
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? (46) The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. (47) Then answered them the...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
49._But this multitude. _The first part of their pride was, that, relying on the title of Priests, they wished to subject all to them in a tyrannical manner. The next is, that they despise others as m...
In chapter 7 His brethren after the flesh, still sunk in unbelief, would have Him shew Himself to the world, if He did these great things; but the time for this was not yet come. At the fulfilment of...
BUT THIS PEOPLE WHO KNOWETH NOT THE LAW ARE CURSED. With great contempt they style the followers of Jesus "this people"; the common people, the dregs of them, the refuse of the earth; and whom they ca...
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. Ver. 49. _But this people, &c._] He howled and wept (said Dr Story concerning Philpot) in the convocation house, and made such ado as never man did...
_Then came the officers to the chief priests_, &c. Namely, without accomplishing the purpose for which they were sent; _and they_ The chief priests and other members of the sanhedrim, perceiving the o...
THIS PEOPLE; the common people, to whom the Pharisees imputed criminal ignorance of the Scriptures. Tyrannical teachers and rulers fear the elevation and influence of the common people. They wish to k...
The report of the guard:...
BUT THIS PEOPLE, WHO KNOWETH NOT THE LAW, ARE CURSED....
HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lowly...
40-53 The malice of Christ's enemies is always against reason, and sometimes the staying of it cannot be accounted for. Never any man spake with that wisdom, and power, and grace, that convincing cle...
Out of the great pride of their hearts they vilify the people, as not learned in the law, and so were cursed, contemptible, and not to be regarded, as to their judgment and sentiments....
John 7:49 But G235 this G3778 crowd G3793 that G3588 not G3361 know G1097 (G5723) law G3551 is...
‘The Pharisees answered them, “Are you also led astray? Have any of the leading authorities believed in him, or the Pharisees? But this crowd who do not know the Law are accursed”.' The Pharisees, of...
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND PHARISEES DISMISS BELIEF IN HIM AS RIDICULOUS (JOHN 7:45). Sitting waiting in their quarters the leading religious authorities were seething. The last thing that they wanted was...
In this section Jesus appears at the feast to which He went up when His Father's, and therefore His own, hour was come. The opportunity afforded by it of teaching is embraced, and we are presented wit...
THIS MULTITUDE (ο οχλος ουτος). The Pharisees had a scorn for the _amhaaretz_ or "people of the earth" (cf. our "clod-hoppers") as is seen in rabbinic literature. It was some of the οχλος (multitude...
John 7:30. _Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracle...
John 7:14. _Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught._ He was no coward, so he boldly showed himself in the midst of the throng in the temple. John 7:15. _And the J...
CONTENTS: Jesus urged to go to the feast. His final departure from Galilee. Jesus at the feast of tabernacles. Prophecy concerning the Holy Spirit. CHARACTERS: God. Jesus, Holy Spirit, disciples, bro...
John 7:1. _He would not walk in Jewry,_ or Judea, _because the jews sought to kill him._ Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same pl...
THIS CROWD DOES NOT KNOW THE LAW OF MOSES! Their reasoning was: "it is only these ignorant people who believe in this Jesus. They are easily fooled, and they are cursed by God anyway....
_On the last day, that great day of the feast_ JESUS THE CHRIST I. PROFFERING BLESSINGS. 1. Water for the thirsty (John 7:37; Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11;...
CHAPTER 7 _But after this Jesus walked in Galilee_, &c. Not immediately, but about six months after. The incidents of the former chapter took place in March, the feast of tabernacles was in September....
_But this people who knoweth not the Law are cursed._ In passing, _i.e._, from Moses and the law to Jesus and the gospel. By this term the Pharisees endeavour to terrify the officers and others, and t...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:41. THE CHRIST.—Hearts open to the truth were convinced and confessed Him. BUT SOME SAID, ETC.—These were unlike the guileless Nathanael (John 1:46). He asked w...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of angry...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of the gospel according to John. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him...
1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 3:18; Isaiah 28:14;...
This people [ο ο χ λ ο ς ο υ τ ο ς]. Better, multitude, as contrasted with the orthodox Jews. See on 1 19. Cursed. As specimens of Rabbinical utterances concerning this class may be cited the expressi...