JOHN, CHAP. VII. 39

86.— [WJiat manner of saying, etc.~\ This question of the Jews is the language of people who saw that there was probably some deep meaning in our Lord's words, and yet were unable to make out which He meant. Hating our Lord bitterly, as many of them did, — determined to kill Him the first opportunity, — vexed and annoyed at their own inability to answer Him, or to stop His influence with the people, — they suspected everything that fell from His lips. " Do not these words of his imply some mischief? Is there not some evil at the bottom of them? Do they not indicate that he is going to dishonour the law of Moses by pulling down the wall of partition between Jew and Gentile?"