The servants frankly reply: οὐδέποτε … ἄνθρωπος. The testimony is notable, because the officers of a court are apt to be entirely mechanical and leave all responsibility for their actions with their superiors. Also it is remarkable that the same result should have found place with them all; for in view of the divided state of public feeling, probably five or six at least would be sent.
JOHN 7:46 evla,lhsen ou[twj a;nqrwpoj {B} The crisp brevity of the reading supported by î66c, 75 B L T W copbo _al_ was expanded for the sake of greater explicitness in various ways, none of which,...
Verse 46. _NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN._] Though these officers had gone on the _errand_ of their masters, they had not entered into their spirit. They were sent to apprehend a seditious man, and a...
THE OFFICERS - Those who had been appointed John 7:32 to take him. It seems that Jesus was in the midst of the people addressing them, and that they happened to come at the very time when he was speak...
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...
NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN. The only answer the officers could make to the demand why they had not carried out orders was, "Man never spake like this man." The multitude had not overawed them, but...
NOT MAN'S TIME BUT GOD'S (John 7:1-9)...
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...
NEVER. Greek. _oudepote_ LIKE. thus, as. Some texts omit this last clause, but not Syriac. See note 3, p. 1511. Compare John 4:29....
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...
_Never man spake like this man_ The reading is doubtful; some of the best MSS. have _Never man_ SO SPAKE. Possibly Christ said a good deal more than is recorded by S. John....
ἘΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ ΟὝΤΩΣ for οὕτως ἐλ. Omit ὡς οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος after ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ, with BLT: other MSS. exhibit great variation....
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...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.), см._ John 7:16. ΟΎΔΈΠΟΤΕ (G3762) никогда, ни в какое время, ΈΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980) говорить; обобщ. _aor._ рассматривает действие как единое...
MANY OF THE PEOPLE THEREFORE,— Our Lord appears to have been discoursing as above, when the officerssent by the council to apprehend him, John 7:32 came up: but as it was an uncommon topic, and he see...
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...
_THE OFFICERS ANSWERED, NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
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...
NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN. — Some of _the_ oldest MSS., including the Vatican, have a shorter text, “Never man spake thus”; but the longer reading is to be preferred. The very officers acknowledge...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“ _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...
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...
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...
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...
_THE WORDS OF JESUS_ ‘Never man spake like this Man.’ John 7:46 It often happens that people appreciate a work of art, and appreciate it rightly, but cannot altogether say why. Much the same, I thi...
46._Never man spoke like this man. _Those officers acknowledge that they are subdued and vanquished by the word of Christ, and yet they do not on that account repent or give due honor to the word. If...
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...
THE OFFICERS ANSWERED,.... Very honestly and uprightly, making use of no shifts and excuses; as that they could not find him, or could not come at him, because of the multitude about him, or that they...
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Ver. 46. _Never man spake like this man_] It is good to come to the world, though with ill intent; they that come to see fashions only, as Moses...
_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...
The report of the guard:...
THE OFFICERS ANSWERED, NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN....
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...
With so much authority, evidence of truth, &c. Yet they did not cordially believe in Christ; being under the power of carnal and worldly affection, which only supernatural special grace could subdue....
John 7:46 officers G5257 answered G611 (G5662) No G3763 man G444 spoke G3779 G2980 (G5656) like...
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...
‘The officers therefore came to the Chief Priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”. The officers answered, “Never did man speak in such a way”.' The officials returne...
John 7:46. THE OFFICERS ANSWERED, NEVER DID A MAN SO SPEAK. A new testimony to Jesus, borne by men who, awed by the majesty of His words, instead of attempting a deed of violence, declare to their ver...
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...
NEVER MAN SO SPAKE (ουδεποτε ελαλησεν ουτως ανθρωπος). Police officers are not usually carried away by public speech. They had fallen under the power of Jesus "as the Galilean peasants had been impr...
John 7:46 The Epiphany of Wisdom I. On the nature of wisdom, the teaching of Holy Scripture is singularly clear and striking. It says there is a wisdom of man, and this is the knowledge of the true e...
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...
NOBODY HAS EVER TALKED THE WAY THIS MAN DOES! McGarvey thinks the Council was in session, expecting them to bring in Jesus. The guards had not carried out their orders, and this is the only reason the...
_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;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 7:45 OFFICERS. Temple police. ⇐ ⇔...
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....
_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...
John 7:26; Luke 4:22; Matthew 7:29...
Like this man. Some of the best texts omit. Deceived [π ε π λ α ν η σ θ ε]. Rev., led astray. See on ver. 12....