John 7:40-44
Legacy Standard Bible
Division of People over Jesus
40 Some of the crowd therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This truly is (A)the Prophet.” 41 Others were saying, “This is the [a]Christ.” Still others were saying, “(B)No, for is the [b]Christ going to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from (C)the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So (D)a division occurred in the crowd because of Him. 44 (E)Some of them were wanting to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
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John 7:40-44
Lexham English Bible
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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- John 7:40 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
- John 7:40 *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
- 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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