The remark made on the Jews" question in John 7:15 applies also to their questions and comments throughout this dialogue. They are too exactly in keeping with what we know of the Jews in our Lord's day to be the invention of a Greek more than a century later. They "are all exactly what we should expect from the popular mode of interpreting and applying the Messianic prophecies." S. p. 146.

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