John 7:40

40 After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet."

John 7:40 Meaning and Commentary

John 7:40

Many of the people therefore
Of the common people, and it may be chiefly those that came out of the country:

when they heard this saying;
or discourse of Christ, on the last and great day of the feast, relating to the large measure of grace, and the effusion of the Spirit on him, that believed:

said, of a truth this is the prophet;
spoken of in ( Deuteronomy 18:15 ) , which some understood not of the Messiah, but of some extraordinary prophet distinct from him, who should come before him, or about the same time; or they imagined he was one of the old prophets raised from the dead, whom they also expected about the times of the Messiah: or their sense might only be, that he was a prophet, which was true, though not all the truth; they had some knowledge, though but small; and they spake of him, though but as children in understanding.

John 7:40 In-Context

38 He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said--rivers of living water shall flow."

39 He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

40 After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet."

41 Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?

42 Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"