And as he said these things Rather (with א, B, C, L), when He had gone forth from thence. The Pharisees in their anger followed Him.

to urge him vehemently It is clear from this and the following verse that the Pharisee's feast had been a base plot to entrap Jesus. None of His disciples seem to have been with Him, nor any of the people; and after these stern rebukes the Pharisees surrounded Him in a most threatening and irritating manner, in "a scene of violence perhaps unique in the Life of Jesus.

to provoke him to speak of many things Perhaps "to cross-question Him," or to catch words from His mouth about very many things. The classicalsense of the verb apostomatizeinis -to dictate."

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