fects only a single member, but which, nevertheless, they prac- tise on the Sabbath.
24. Appearance (ow). Primarily, seeing or sight. In xi. 44; Apoc. i. 16, face, and hence external appearance. The word occurs only in the three passages cited.
Righteous judgment (rv Sicaiav xpiow). Properly, the righteous judgment; that which is appropriate to the case in hand.
25. Them of Jerusalem (IepocoAvpitav). Lit., of the JSe- rusalemites, who knew better than the multitude the designs of the priesthood. The word occurs only here and Mark i. 5.
26. Do the rulers know indeed? ‘The interrogative par- ticle unmore may be rendered by the familiar expression they do not, do they? Rev., can tt be that the rulers, ete. Indeed (GAnI@s); lit., truly.
The very (aAn3as). Omit.
27. Howbeit (ada). But, it cannot be that the rulers have made such a discovery, for we know whence this man is.
We know (oidayev). The knowing of the rulers is expressed by éyvwcav ; have they ascertained by searching and watching. The people’s knowledge, oféapev, is that of settled conviction.
Whence (704ev). Referring to His parentage and family.
No one knoweth whence He is. Opinions differ as to the precise reference of these words. Some explain by a popu- lar idea that the Messiah would not be known until anointed by Elias, when he would suddenly appear. Others refer to Isa. liii. 8; or to Dan. vii. 138. Meyer says that while the popular belief that the immediate ancestry of the Messiah would be un- known when He came cannot further be historically proved it is credible, partly from the belief in His divine origin, ae