John 7:41

Others said … some said Both verbs, as in John 7:40, are imperfects of repeated action; kept saying, used to say.

Shall Christ come out of Galilee We have here an instance how little attention our translators paid to the Greek article: in the same verse they translate the article in one place and ignore it in another. In the next verse they ignore it again. In all three places it should be - theChrist" (see on John 1:20). Why, doth the Christ come out of Galilee?It is quite inadmissible to infer, because S. John does not correct this mistake of supposing that Jesus came from Galilee, that he is either ignorant of the truth or indifferent to it. He knew that his readers would be well aware of the facts. On the other hand, could a Greek of the second century invent these discussions of the Jewish multitude?