John 7:25

Is Jesus the Christ?

25 Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

John 7:25 Meaning and Commentary

John 7:25

Then said some of them of Jerusalem
Who were inhabitants of Jerusalem, and so are distinguished from the people, ( John 7:20 ) , who came up out of the country to the feast; so Jose ben Jochanan is called (Mylvwry vya) , "a man of Jerusalem" ^F3; that is, an inhabitant of it: now these men living in the city, knew more of the temper and disposition, the designs and attempts, of the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, to take away the life of Christ; and therefore say,

is not this he whom they seek to kill?
they knew that they had formed a design to kill him, ever since the passover before the last; when he wrought the miracle referred to in the text, and that they had been ever since plotting against his life, and were now at this feast seeking an opportunity to lay hold on him and kill him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Pirke Abot, c. 1. sect. 4, 5.

John 7:25 In-Context

23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

24 Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!"

25 Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

26 And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

27 Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!"

Footnotes

• [a]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")