Juan 7:40

40 Entonces muchos del pueblo, oyendo este dicho, decían: Verdaderamente éste es el profeta

Juan 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.

Juan 7:40 In-Context

38 El que cree en mí, como dice la Escritura, ríos de agua viva correrán de su vientre

39 (Y esto dijo del Espíritu que habían de recibir los que creyeran en él; porque aún no era dado el Espíritu Santo, porque Jesús aún no era glorificado.

40 Entonces muchos del pueblo, oyendo este dicho, decían: Verdaderamente éste es el profeta

41 Otros decían: Este es el Cristo. Algunos sin embargo decían: ¿De Galilea ha de venir el Cristo

42 ¿No dice la Escritura, que de la simiente de David, y de la aldea de Belén, de donde era David, vendrá el Cristo