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Fill...draw...bear--directing all, but Himself touching nothing, to prevent all appearance of collusion.
did not commit--"entrust," or let Himself down familiarly to them, as to His genuine disciples.
These things said he in the synagogue--which seems to imply that what follows took place after the congregation had broken up.
Others said, This is the Christ--(See on Joh 1:21). Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, &c.--(See on Joh7:33).
The neighbours therefore...said, Is not this he that sat and begged--Here are a number of details to identify the newly seeing with the long-known blind beggar.
Then said they...again, What did he to thee? &c.--hoping by repeated questions to ensnare him, but the youth is more than a match for them.
Are we blind also?--We, the constituted, recognized guides of the people in spiritual things? pride and rage prompting the question.
That the saying of Esaias...might be fulfilled--This unbelief did not at all set aside the purposes of God, but, on the contrary, fulfilled them.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you--hold yourselves in absolute subjection to Me.
If I had not done...the works which none other...did--(See on Joh 12:37).
the apostles...sent Peter and John--showing that they regarded Peter as no more than their own equal.
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James--(See on Mr 1:29).
The same, &c.--See what property of the Word the stress is laid upon--His eternal distinctness, in unity, from God--the Father (Joh1:2).
Why baptizest thou, if not, &c.--Thinking he disclaimed any special connection with Messiah's kingdom, they demand his right to gather disciples by baptism.
Because I said, &c.--"So quickly convinced, and on this evidence only?"--an expression of admiration.
Forty and six years--From the eighteenth year of Herod till then was just forty-six years [Josephus, Antiquities, 15.11.1].
hath set to His seal, &c.--gives glory to God whose words Christ speaks, not as prophets and apostles by a partial communication of the Spirit to them.
Murmur not...No man--that is, Be not either startled or stumbled at these sayings; for it needs divine teaching to understand them, divine drawing to submit to them.
heard that the people murmured--that mutterings to this effect were going about, and thought it high time to stop Him if He was not to be allowed to carry away the people.
Many...when they heard this...said, Of a truth, &c.--The only wonder is they did not all say it. "But their minds were blinded."
Ye judge after the flesh--with no spiritual apprehension. I judge no man.
Jesus walked...in Solomon's porch--for shelter. This portico was on the east side of the temple, and Josephus says it was part of the original structure of Solomon [Antiquities, 20.9.7].
if he sleep, he shall do well--literally, "be preserved"; that is, recover. "Why then go to Judea?"
six days before the passover--that is, on the sixth day before it; probably after sunset on Friday evening, or the commencement of the Jewish sabbath preceding the passover.
without me--apart, or vitally disconnected from Me. ye can do nothing--spiritually, acceptably.
Alford confesses that the non-mention of the "lady" herself here seems rather to favor the hypothesis that a Church is meant.
no wine--evidently expecting some display of His glory, and hinting that now was His time.
the good wine...until now--thus testifying, while ignorant of the source of supply, not only that it was real wine, but better than any at the feast.