26. Omit ἀληθῶς after ἐστιν.

26. ἴδε παῤῥησίᾳ. See on John 1:29 and John 7:13.

μήποτε κ.τ.λ. Can it be that the rulers indeed have come to know that this man is the Christ? Surely they have not; and yet why do they allow such language? Comp. John 7:31; John 4:29; John 4:33, and see on John 1:48. The suggestion is only momentary: they at once raise a technical difficulty which suffices with them to cancel the moral impression produced by His words.

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