John 7:21. Jesus answered and said unto them, did one work, and ye all marvel. This answer seems to have been addressed to the multitude, or rather to the whole body of those present including ‘the Jews,' not to ‘the Jews' alone (as is supposed by some who make John 7:20 a parenthesis): hence the calmness of the tone. ‘One work,' viz. that recorded in chap. John 5:1-8, the miracle, with all its attendant circumstances. Many other miracles had Jesus wrought in Jerusalem (chap. John 2:25), but this one had caused all the amazement and repulsion of feeling of which He is here speaking.

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