Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Behold (ide). Here an exclamation (see John 1:29) as often like idou.
An Israelite indeed (alhqwv Israhleithv). "Truly an Israelite," one living up to the covenant name, Israel at its best (Romans 2:29), without the guile (dolov, deceit, bait for fish, from deleazw, to catch with bait) that Jacob once had of which Isaac complained (Genesis 27:35, dolov, here in LXX). The servant of Jehovah was to be without guile (Isaiah 53:9).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 1:47:
John 7:40
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