ἐκ τ. νόμου. In its widest sense, including the Psalms and the Prophets, as in John 10:34; John 15:25. Comp. Psalms 89:29; Psalms 89:36; Psalms 110:4; Isaiah 9:7; Ezekiel 37:25, &c. The people rightly understand ‘lifted up from the earth’ to mean removal from the earth by death; and they argue—‘Scripture says that the Christ (see on John 1:20) will abide for ever. You claim to be the Christ, and yet you say that you will be lifted up and therefore not abide.’ For δεῖ see on John 3:14.

οὗτος ὁ υἱ. τ. ἀν. Οὗτος is contemptuous (John 9:16): ‘a strange Messiah this, with no power to abide!’ (See John 1:51.) Once more we see with how firm a hand the Evangelist has grasped the complicated situation. One moment the people are convinced by a miracle that Jesus is the Messiah, the next that it is impossible to reconcile His position with the received interpretations of Messianic prophecy. It did not occur to them to doubt the interpretations.

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