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Gill's Exposition
The officers answered,.... Very honestly and uprightly, making use of no shifts and excuses; as that they could not find him, or could not come at him, because of the multitude about him, or that they…
Adam Clarke
Would have taken him - Or, they wished to seize him. And this they would have done, and destroyed him too at that time, had they been unanimous; but their being divided in opinion, Joh 7:43, was the…
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
some of them Some of the multitude, provoked by the controversy, would on their own responsibility have carried Him before the Sanhedrin. These -some" are not the officers mentioned in the next verse.
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