John 7:40

Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”

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WEBBE

Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”

BSB

On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”

KJV

Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.

ASV

[Some] of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.

BBE

When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet.

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Πολλοὶ Polloi many G4183 ἐκ ek from G1537 τοῦ tou the G3588 ὄχλου ochlou crowd G3793 οὖν oun therefore G3767 ἀκούσαντες akousantes having heard G191 τῶν tōn the G3588 λόγων logōn words G3056 τούτων toutōn these G3778 ἔλεγον elegon were saying G3004 ὅτι hoti that G3754 οὗτός houtos This G3778 ἐστιν estin is G1510 ἀληθῶς alēthōs truly G230 ὁ ho the G3588 προφήτης prophētēs Prophet G4396

The early church

(Tract. xxxiii. 1) Our Lord having invited those, who believed in Him, to drink of the Holy Spirit, a dissension arose among the multitude: Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
You remember, my beloved, that in the last discourse, by occasion of the passage of the Gospel read, we spoke to you concerning the Holy Spirit. When the Lord had invited those that believe on Him to this drinking, speaking among those who meditated to lay hold of Him, and sought to kill Him, and were not able, because it was not His will: well, when He had spoken these things, there arose a dissension among the multitude concerning Him; some thinking that He was the very Christ, others saying that Christ shall not arise from Galilee.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Tractates on John
The one, that is, who was expected. Others, i. e. the people said, This is the Christ.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 40–53

The malice of Christ's enemies is always against reason, and sometimes the staying of it cannot be accounted for. Never any man spake with that wisdom, and power, and grace, that convincing clearness, and that sweetness, wherewith Christ spake. Alas, that many, who are for a time restrained, and who speak highly of the word of Jesus, speedily lose their convictions, and go on in their sins! People are foolishly swayed by outward motives in matters of eternal moment, are willing even to be damned for fashion's sake. As the wisdom of God often chooses things which men despise, so the folly of men commonly despises those whom God has chosen. The Lord brings forward his weak and timid disciples, and sometimes uses them to defeat the designs of his enemies.

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