The Pulpit Commentary on John 7:47

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The Pharisees therefore answered them. Evidently the Pharisees were the leading spirits in this assault upon Jesus. The guardians of the orthodoxy of Israel, in the haughty pride of their order, are piqued and angry.

Have ye also—the chosen servants of the august council of the nation—been led astray? In Matthew 27:63 these Pharisees speak of the Divine Lord as "this deceiver ( ἐκεῖνος ὁ πλάνος)." Are folly and weakness, if not treachery and corruption, at work so near the centre of our authority?

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