Johannes 7:35

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Då sade judarna till varandra: »Vart tänker denne gå, eftersom vi icke skola kunna finna honom? Månne han tänker gå till dem som bo kringspridda bland grekerna? Tänker han då undervisa grekerna?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the dispersed: Isaiah 11:12, Isaiah 27:12, Isaiah 27:13, Zephaniah 3:10, Acts 21:21, James 1:1, 1 Peter 1:1

Gentiles: or, Greeks

teach: Psalms 67:1, Psalms 67:2, Psalms 98:2, Psalms 98:3, Isaiah 11:10, Isaiah 49:6, Matthew 12:21, Luke 2:32, Acts 11:18, Acts 13:46-48, Acts 22:21, Ephesians 3:8, Colossians 1:27, 1 Timothy 2:7, 2 Timothy 1:11

Reciprocal: Esther 3:8 - scattered abroad Hosea 9:17 - and Matthew 10:5 - Go John 12:20 - Greeks Acts 11:19 - to none Acts 14:1 - Greeks Acts 17:20 - strange

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said the Jews among themselves,.... That is, the unbelieving, scoffing Jews; it may be the officers, at least some of them, that were sent to take him:

whither will he go that we shall not find him? what distant, or obscure part of the world will he betake himself to, and there hide himself, that so he cannot be found?

will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles? or Greeks; and so may design the Jews, who were scattered abroad in the times of the Grecian monarchy, under the successors of Alexander, and particularly Antiochus, in distinction from the Babylonish dispersion; or the strangers scattered through Pontus Galatia, c. to whom Peter writes, 1 Peter 1:1. The Arabic version renders it, "the sect of the Greeks" by which the Hellenistic Jews seem to be meant: or the Jews in general, wherever, and by whomsoever scattered, who might be thought to be more ignorant than the Jews in Judea, and therefore more easily to be imposed upon: hence, in a flouting manner, they inquire, whether he will go to those when he is rejected by them. The Syriac and Ethiopic versions read, "will he go into the countries, or country of the Gentiles" into Heathen countries, not to the Jews there, but to the Gentiles themselves:

and teach the Gentiles? suggesting, that he was more fit to be a teacher of them, than of the Jews, and might meet with more encouragement and success among them, who would not be able to detect him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The dispersed among the Gentiles - To the Jews scattered among the Gentiles, or living in distant parts of the earth. It is well known that at that time there were Jews dwelling in almost every land. There were multitudes in Egypt, in Asia Minor, in Greece, in Rome, etc., and in all these places they had synagogues. The question which they asked was whether he would leave an ungrateful country, and go into those distant nations and teach them.

Gentiles - In the original, Greeks. All those who were not Jews were called Greeks, because they were chiefly acquainted with those pagans only who spake the Greek language. It is remarkable that Jesus returned no answer to these inquiries. He rather chose to turn off their minds from a speculation about the place to which he was going, to the great affairs of their own personal salvation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 35. The dispersed among the Gentiles — Or Greeks. By the dispersed, are meant here the Jews who were scattered through various parts of that empire which Alexander the Great had founded, in Greece, Syria, Egypt, and Asia Minor, where the Greek language was used, and where the Jewish Scriptures in the Greek version of the Septuagint were read. Others suppose that the Gentiles themselves are meant-others, that the ten tribes which had been long lost are here intended.