John 7:26-27
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
- John Gill - Exposition - John 7:26
- John Gill - Exposition - John 7:27
- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - John 7
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
John 7:26-27. But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? Howbeit we know this man whence he is but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
They had a notion-perhaps derived from that passage in Isaiah, "who shall declare his generation? "-that the birth of Christ would be hidden in mystery. At any rate, there was some cloudy idea floating about that it would be concealed.