εἶπον ὑμῖν. When? no such saying is recorded. Ewald thus finds some slight evidence for his theory that a whole sheet of this Gospel has been lost between Chapter s 5. and 6. But the reference may easily be to one of the countless unrecorded sayings of Christ, or possibly to the general sense of John 5:37-44. In the latter case ‘you’ must mean the Jewish nation, for those verses were addressed to Jews at Jerusalem. Or the reference may be to the spirit of John 6:26, which accuses them of having seen His miracles without believing that they were signs.

καὶ ἑωράκ. see on John 1:18, Ye have even seen Me (not merely heard of Me) and (yet) do not believe. The tragic tone again (see on John 1:5), followed by a pause. The next sentence has no conjunction.

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