John 7 Footnotes
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7:39 The Holy Spirit had been given frequently, but only temporarily, to various people throughout the OT. But he would permanently indwell God’s people only after Jesus’s death and exaltation (14:17; see Ac 2).
7:41-42,52 These verses do not contradict Mt 2:1 and Lk 2:4 on Jesus’s being born in Bethlehem. Rather, they point out (ironically) how Jesus was rejected because people mistakenly think he was born in Nazareth, where he grew up. Some prophets did in fact come from Galilee (Hosea, Jonah, Nahum), but not “the Prophet” (i.e., the Messiah, as the textual variant clarifies).