John 7:31
ContextNETBible | Yet many of the crowd 1 believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ 2 comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” 3 |
XREF | Mt 11:3-6; Mt 12:23; Lu 8:13; Joh 2:23,24; Joh 3:2; Joh 4:39; Joh 6:2; Joh 6:14,15; Joh 8:30-32; Joh 9:16; Joh 10:41,42; Joh 12:42; Ac 8:13; Jas 2:26 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities). 2 tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”). sn See the note on Christ in 1:20. 3 tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here it is “will he?”). |