João 7:40

40 Ouvindo as suas palavras, alguns no meio do povo disseram: “Certamente este homem é o Profeta”.

João 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.

João 7:40 In-Context

38 Quem crer em mim, como diz a Escritura, do seu interior fluirão rios de água viva”.

39 Ele estava se referindo ao Espírito, que mais tarde receberiam os que nele cressem. Até então o Espírito ainda não tinha sido dado, pois Jesus ainda não fora glorificado.

40 Ouvindo as suas palavras, alguns no meio do povo disseram: “Certamente este homem é o Profeta”.

41 Outros disseram: “Ele é o Cristo”.Ainda outros perguntaram: “Como pode o Cristo vir da Galileia?

42 A Escritura não diz que o Cristo virá da descendência de Davi, da cidade de Belém, onde viveu Davi?”