约翰福音 7:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

群眾因他紛紛議論，有的說：“他是好人。”有的說：“不，他是欺騙眾人的。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
众 人 为 他 纷 纷 议 论 ， 有 的 说 ： 他 是 好 人 。 有 的 说 ： 不 然 ， 他 是 迷 惑 众 人 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹ After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because some evil people there wanted to kill him. ² It was time for the Feast of Shelters. ³ So Jesus' brothers said to him, "You should leave here and go to Judea so your followers there can see the miracles you do. ⁴ Anyone who wants to be well known does not hide what he does. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." ⁵ (Even Jesus' brothers did not believe in him.) ⁶ Jesus said to his brothers, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does. ⁸ So you go to the feast. I will not go yet to this feast, because the right time for me has not yet come." ⁹ After saying this, Jesus stayed in Galilee. ¹⁰ But after Jesus' brothers had gone to the feast, Jesus went also. But he did not let people see him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

murmuring: John 7:32, John 9:16, Philippians 2:14

some: John 7:25-27, John 7:40-43, John 6:14, John 9:16, John 10:19-21, Matthew 10:25, Matthew 16:13-16, Matthew 21:46, Luke 7:16

is a: Luke 6:45, Luke 18:19, Luke 23:47, Luke 23:50, Acts 11:24, Romans 5:7

deceiveth: John 7:47, John 7:52, Matthew 27:63

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:25 - that he came Matthew 12:32 - whosoever Matthew 16:14 - Elias Luke 7:39 - This man John 1:9 - every John 6:41 - murmured John 7:39 - Of John 7:43 - General 2 Corinthians 6:8 - as Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the boat off the ground.

Exodus 24:18
Then Moses went into the cloud and went higher up the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets with the Agreement the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water.

Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I again bowed facedown on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water. You had sinned by doing what the Lord said was evil, and you made him angry.

Deuteronomy 10:10
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights just like the first time, and the Lord listened to me this time also. He did not want to destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8
So Elijah got up and ate and drank. The food made him strong enough to walk for forty days and nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.

Matthew 4:2
Jesus fasted for forty days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him,.... There was a general whisper, and a private controversy and contention among the people about him, upon inquiry being made after him:

for some said he is a good man; a man of a good principle, of a good life and conversation; and who is good, kind, and beneficent, both to the bodies and souls of men; preaches good doctrine, and does many good things:

others said: nay, or denied him to be a good man:

but he deceiveth the people; drawing them off from the law of Moses, teaching them to break the sabbath, setting himself up for the Messiah, and asserting himself to be the son of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Murmuring - Contention, disputing.

He deceiveth the people - That is, he is deluding them, or drawing them away by pretending to be the Messiah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:12. Some said, He is a good man — The multitude were divided in their opinions concerning him: those who knew him best said, He is a good man. Those who spoke according to the character given him by the priests, c., said, Nay but he deceiveth the people. Those who spoke evil of him spoke out, because they had the rulers on their side; but those who spoke good of him were obliged to do it in private, because they feared these rulers. Calumny and slander are among the privileged orders; they stalk abroad with their thousand brazen mouths, and blast the reputation of the followers of God. Benevolence and candour are only on sufferance; and a whisper in secret is the most they are permitted to give in behalf of Christ and his followers, whose laws and maxims condemn a vicious world, and goad it to revenge.