16. True (dAnI7s). The best texts, however, read dAnJuvn, true to the perfect ideal of judgment.
17. In your law (év 7@ voum TO dperépw). Lit., wm the law, that which is yours. Yours has an emphatic force: of which you claim a monopoly. See vii. 49.
It is written (yéyparrrac). The perfect tense: 2¢ has been written, and stands written. The common form of citation elsewhere, but used by John of the Old Testament scriptures only here. His usual form is yeypaupévov éotiv, the participle with the finite verb, lit., 2¢ 2s having been written.
The witness of two men. See Dent. xix. 15.
The Father—beareth witness of me. Thus there are two witnesses, and the letter of the law is fulfilled.
19. Where. The testimony of an unseen and unheard wit- ness would not satisfy them.
20. The Treasury (yaloguraxip). From ydta, treasure, a Persian word, occurring only once in the New Testament (Acts viii. 27), and dvdaxy, guard. Used by John only here. The Treasury was in the Court of the Women, so called, not because it was appropriated to the worship of women exclusively, but because they were not allowed to proceed further, except for sacrificial purposes. The court covered a space upwards of two hundred feet square, and was surrounded by a colonnade, within which, and against the wall, were the thirteen trumpet-shaped chests, called “trumpets” from their shape, for charitable con- tributions. This court was the most public part of the temple.
And no man laid hands on Him (ka? odSels érlacev avrov). Notice the connection with the previous sentence by the simple and, where another writer would have said and yet: the sense being that though Jesus was teaching where He might easily have been apprehended, yet no one attempted to arrest Him. See oni. 10. Zaid hands on is better rendered, as elsewhere,