Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
That this is the very Christ? - In most of the common printed editions is found, the Very Christ; but the word is wanting in BDKLTX, twenty-two others, several editions; all the Arabic, Wheelock' s Persic, the Coptic, Sahidic, Armenian, Slavonic, Vulgate, and all the Itala but one, Origen, Epiphanius, Cyril, Isidore, Pelusian, and Nonnus. Grotius, Mill, Bengel, and Griesbach, decide against it. Bishop Pearce says, I am of opinion that this second , in this verse, should be omitted, it seeming quite unnecessary, if not inaccurate, when the words , had just preceded it.
Calmet observes that the multitude which heard our Lord at this time was composed of three different classes of persons:
1.The rulers, priests, and Pharisees, declared enemies of Christ.
2.The inhabitants of Jerusalem, who knew the sentiments of their rulers concerning him.
3.The strangers, who from different quarters had come up to Jerusalem to the feast, and who heard Christ attentively, being ignorant of the designs of the rulers, etc., against him.
Our Lord addresses himself in this discourse principally to his enemies. The strange Jews were those who were astonished when Christ said, John 7:20, that they sought to kill him, having no such design themselves, and not knowing that others had. And the Jews of Jerusalem were those who, knowing the disposition of the rulers, and seeing Christ speak openly, no man attempting to seize him, addressed each other in the foregoing words, Do the rulers know indeed that this is the Christ? imagining that the chief priests, etc., had at last been convinced that Jesus was the Messiah.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jonah 3:2
John 7:20
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