Jesus again as a second sign. The pleonasm in again, the sec- ond, is only apparent. Other miracles had indeed been wrought between these two ; but John emphasizes these two as marking Jesus’ coming from Judxa to Galilee. The healing of the nobleman’s child was the second miracle, only in respect of its taking place upon Jesus’ withdrawal from Juda into Galilee. Hence the again. He wrought a miracle again, when He again came into Galilee, and this miracle was the second, as marking His second coming.
1. A feast (€op7}). Or festival. What festival is uncer- tain. It has been identified with the Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles; also with the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Dedication, and the Feast of Purim.
2. Sheep-market (79 mpo8aricq). The word is an adjec- tive pertaining to sheep, which requires to be completed with another word, not with dyopa, market, but with vA, gate. This gate was near the temple on the east of the city. See Neh. iii. 1, 32; xii. 39. Some editors join the adjective with the fol- lowing xodvpByIpa, pool, making the latter word KodupBnIpa (the dative case), and reading the sheep-pool. Wyc., a standing water of beasts.
Pool (xoAvuP7Ipa). In the New Testament only in this chapter and ix. 7,11. Properly, a pool for swomming, from koruuBaw, to dive. In Kecl. ii. 6 (Sept.) it is used of a reser- voir in a garden. The Hebrew word is from the verb to kneel down, and means, therefore, a kneeling-place for cattle or men when drinking. In ecclesiastical language, the baptismal font, and the baptistery itself.
Called (émieyouévn). Strictly, surnamed, the name having perhaps supplanted some earlier name.