Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
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Gill's Exposition
Hath not the Scripture said,.... These objectors were those who were accounted the more wise and knowing; who were conversant with the Scriptures, and pretended at least to a large knowledge of them:…
Adam Clarke
Shalt Christ come out of Galilee? - As the prophets had declared that the Messiah was to come from the tribe of Judah, and from the family of David, and should be born in the city of Bethlehem, these…
In these verses we have,
I. Christ's discourse, with the explication of it, Joh 7:37-39. It is probable that these are only short hints of what he enlarged upon, but they have in them the substance of…
Cambridge Bible
Others said … some said Both verbs, as in Joh 7:7, are imperfects of repeated action; kept saying, used to say.
Shall Christ come out of Galilee We have here an instance how little attention our…
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