Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
This is the Christ (outov estin o Xristov). These went further and dared to call Jesus the Messiah and not merely the prophet who might not be the Messiah. They said it openly.
What (gar). These denied that Jesus was the Messiah and gave as their reason (gar, for) the fact that he came from Galilee. The use of mh expects a negative answer.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 7:41:
Mark 12:35
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