“ But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. ”
This people - The word here translated “people” is the one commonly rendered “the multitude.” It is a word expressive of contempt, or, as we would say, the rabble. It denotes the scorn which they...
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...
cursed . laid under. curse. Greek epikataratos. Only here and Galatians 1:3 ; Galatians 1:10 ; Galatians 1:13 . Found often in the Septuagint and in the Papyri. See Deissmann's Light, &c...
49. But this multitude. The first part of their pride was, that, relying on the title of Priests, they wished to subject all to them in a tyrannical manner. The next is, that they despise ot...
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. This people - Ὁ οχλος, This rabble. The common people were treated by the Pharisees with the most sovereign contempt: they were termed עם הארץ am...
Are ye also deceived? &c.— "Ye who have the advantage of knowing our sentiments, and are acquainted with the idea which we entertain concerning this person; surely you cannot be so weak as to b...
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. But this people, х ho ( G3588 ) ochlos ( G3793 ) houtos ( G3778 )] - rather, 'this multitude,' this ignorant rabble. Pity the...
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...
But this people who knoweth not the law... — The words express “Those people there, among whom you have been, and with whose opinion you have been coinciding, instead of holding the authoritative o...
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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...
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. With great contempt they style the followers of Jesus "this people"; the common people, the dregs of them, the refuse of the earth; and whom they...
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. Ver. 49. But this people, &c. ] He howled and wept (said Dr Story concerning Philpot) in the convocation house, and made such ado as never...
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...
Out of the great pride of their hearts they vilify the people, as not learned in the law, and so were cursed, contemptible, and not to be regarded, as to their judgment and sentiments.
The Chief Priests And Pharisees Dismiss Belief In Him As Ridiculous ( John 7:45-52 ). Sitting waiting in their quarters the leading religious authorities were seething. The last thing that they wa...
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 7:14 . 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:
1 Corinthians 1:20 ; 1 Corinthians 1:21 ; 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 ; Isaiah 28:14 ; Isaiah 29:14-19 ; Isaiah 5:21 ; Isaiah 65:5 ; James 3:13-18 ; John 9:34 ; John 9:40
But this populace, who know not the law — This ignorant rabble; are accursed — Are by that ignorance exposed to the curse of being thus seduced.