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41 Others said, “This is the Christ!”[a] But still others said, “No,[b] for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:41 tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.
  2. John 7:41 tn An initial negative reply (“No”) is suggested by the causal or explanatory γάρ (gar) which begins the clause.
  3. John 7:41 tn Questions prefaced with μή () in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “does he?”).

41 Others said, “He is the Messiah.”

Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?(A)

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41 Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the Christ come out of Galilee?

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