John 7:43

Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees,.... Who were assembled together in council, as the great sanhedrim of the nation; who were sitting and expecting Jesus to be brought before…

There was a division - Σχισμα, a schism; they were divided in sentiment, and separated into parties. This is the true notion of schism.

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…

a division Schisma, whence our word -schism." It means a serious and possibly violent division: Joh 9:16; Joh 10:19; 1Co 1:10; 1Co 12:25; comp. Act 14:4; Act 23:7. In N.T. it is never used in the…