“ The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. ”
The officers - Those who had been appointed John 7:32 to take him. It seems that Jesus was in the midst of the people addressing them, and that they happened to come at the very time when he wa...
The Last Day of the Feast. The Feast of Tabernacles, the feast of the ingathering at the end of summer, lasted seven days in early times ( Deuteronomy 16:13 ). An eighth day was added later ( Levit...
never . Greek. oudepote like . thus, as. Some texts omit this last clause, but not Syriac. See note 3, p. 1511. Compare John 4:29 .
46. Never man spoke like this man. Those officers acknowledge that they are subdued and vanquished by the word of Christ, and yet they do not on that account repent or give due honor to the...
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Never man spake like this man - Though these officers had gone on the errand of their masters, they had not entered into their spirit. They were...
Many of the people therefore,— Our Lord appears to have been discoursing as above, when the officerssent by the council to apprehend him, John 7:32 came up: but as it was an uncommon topic, and h...
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. No JFB commentary on this verse.
The Feast of Tabernacles John 7:1 to John 10:21 . Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6 , delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go...
Never man spake like this man. — Some of the oldest MSS., including the Vatican, have a shorter text, “Never man spake thus”; but the longer reading is to be preferred. The very officers acknowle...
Chapter 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast...
the Blindness of Prejudice John 7:40-53 These short descriptions of the impressions made on His hearers by the discourses of Jesus indicate the double development which was resulting from His m...
So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two yea...
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? (46) The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. (47) Then answered them the...
THE WORDS OF JESUS ‘Never man spake like this Man.’ John 7:46 It often happens that people appreciate a work of art, and appreciate it rightly, but cannot altogether say why. Much the same,...
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 t...
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Ver. 46. Never man spake like this man ] It is good to come to the world, though with ill intent; they that come to see fashions only, as Mos...
Then came the officers to the chief priests , &c. Namely, without accomplishing the purpose for which they were sent; and they The chief priests and other members of the sanhedrim, perceiving...
HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lo...
The Officers' Testimony of Christ. 45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have...
With so much authority, evidence of truth, &c. Yet they did not cordially believe in Christ; being under the power of carnal and worldly affection, which only supernatural special grace could sub...
‘The officers therefore came to the Chief Priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”. The officers answered, “Never did man speak in such a way”.' The officials retur...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 7:41-42 . The Christ. —Hearts open to the truth were convinced and confessed Him. But some said, etc. —These were unlike the guileless Nathanael ( John 1:46-...
John 7:46 The Epiphany of Wisdom I. On the nature of wisdom, the teaching of Holy Scripture is singularly clear and striking. It says there is a wisdom of man, and this is the knowledge of the tr...
John 7:14 . Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. He was no coward, so he boldly showed himself in the midst of the throng in the temple. John 7:15 . And...
John 7:1 . He would not walk in Jewry, or Judea, because the jews sought to kill him. Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same...
On the last day, that great day of the feast Jesus the Christ I. PROFFERING BLESSINGS. 1. Water for the thirsty ( John 7:37 ; Exodus 17:6 ; Numbers 20:11 ; Psalms 78:15 ; Psalms 78:20 ,...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of...
The report of the guard:
John 7:26 ; Luke 4:22 ; Matthew 7:29