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John 7:40-44
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Different Opinions About Jesus

40 Then, when they[a] heard these words, some from the crowd began to say,[b] “This man is truly the Prophet!” 41 Others were saying, “This man is the Christ!” But others were saying, “No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?[c] 42 Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So there was a division in the crowd because of him. 44 And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:40 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 7:40 *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
  3. John 7:41 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “does he”
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