John Gill, on John 6:42

“And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he, I came down from heaven?”

“Jesus therefore answered and said unto them,.... Either overhearing what they said, or knowing, as God, their secret murmurs, and private cavils among themselves, thus addressed them, murmur not among yourselves: meaning neither about his descent from heaven, nor about coming to him, and believing in him; for it follows,”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.