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Could This Be the Christ?

25 Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to akill?  
26 But look! He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. aDo the rulers know indeed that this is1 truly the Christ?  
27 aHowever, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.”  
28 Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, a“You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and bI have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me cis true, dwhom you do not know.  
29 But aI know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”  
30 Therefore athey sought to take Him; but bno one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.  
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John 7:27

Howbeit (alla). Clearly adversative here.

This man (touton). Possibly contemptuous use of outov as may be true in John 7:25-26.

Whence he is (poqen estin). The Galilean Jews knew the family of Jesus (John 6:42), but they knew Jesus only as from Nazareth, not as born in Bethlehem (verse John 7:42).

When the Christ cometh (o Xristov otan erxhtai). Prolepsis of o Xristov and indefinite temporal clause with otan and the present middle subjunctive erxhtai rather than the more usual second aorist active elqh as in verse John 7:31, a trifle more picturesque. This is a piece of popular theology. "Three things come wholly unexpected—Messiah, a godsend, and a scorpion" (Sanhedrin 97a). The rulers knew the birthplace to be Bethlehem (John 7:42; Matthew 2:5 f.), but some even expected the Messiah to drop suddenly from the skies as Satan proposed to Jesus to fall down from the pinnacle of the temple. The Jews generally expected a sudden emergence of the Messiah from concealment with an anointing by Elijah (Apoc. of Bar. XXIX. 3; 2Esdr. 7:28; 13:32; Justin Martyr, Tryph. 110).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 7:27:

Matthew 16:1
John 7:31
John 9:29

 

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