Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

The Greek may be rendered : " were struck." It denotes an extra- ordinary feeling of wonder. His doctrine is not mentioned, but it is plainly understood. '

G. P. " that even." Griesbach, Schott, Campbell and Wetstein, on the authority of many manuscripts, maintain the Vulgate reading. The sense may be : Whence is it that He can do such wonders ] In the corresponding passage of St. Matthew, He is called " the carpenter's son." He may have been called "the carpenter " from the trade of His reputed father, at which he probably worked in His youth. John vi. 42. The Greek and Latin terms are not necessarily under- stood of a carpenter, but of any smith or mechanic.

A staff is forbidden in Matthew^- It is thought that a weapon of de- fence is there meant : but the (?reek term is the same in each evangelist.

G. P. "knew Him." The pronoun is wanting in the Vatican, Cam- bridge, and several other manuscripts and versions. The knowledge of His departure was communicated by those who saw Him go away, to many others. "That the historian should say that many knew Him, now after He had been so long occupied every day in teaching them, and curing their sick, and had been constantly attended by the admiring crowd, is exceedingly improbable." Campbell.

" A Catholic." Erasmus remarks that the Greek verb' is applicable t& any mode of sailing, and that rowing is differently expressed.