If I had not come and spoken, &c.— "The ignorance of the Jews in particular will not however excuse them, (see the last note,) since they have had more than sufficient means of information. If I had not appeared in person among them, agreeablyto their own prophesies, and proved my divine mission by arguments which put it beyond all reasonable doubt, they would not have been so much to blame for rejecting the gospel: they had not had sin; that is, their sin would have been comparatively much less than it now is: (see John 9:41.) But now that all the things foretold by Moses and the prophets are fulfilled in me; now that my gospel is every wayworthy of God, and that my mission from my Father issufficiently proved by my miracles, they have no plea whatever, [προφασιν], to palliate or excuse their unbelief."
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John 15:22
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no clokea for their sin.