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JOHN 10:42 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
John 10:41John 11
“And many believed on him there.”
And in that place many believed in Jesus — while Jerusalem's leaders reject Jesus and attempt to arrest Him, others beyond Jordan's safe distance believe in Him based on John the Baptist's testimony and Jesus' own works. This creates a contrast: rejection in the center of religious authority, belief in the periphery, setting up the transition to John 11's account of Lazarus.

Church Fathers on John 10:42

The Jews still persist in their madness; Therefore they sought again to take Him.

Bede · 8th century

To lay hold of Him, not by faith and the understanding, but with blood thirsty violence. Do you so lay hold of Him, that you may have sure hold; they would fain have laid hold on Him, but they could not: for it follows, But He escaped out of their hand. They did lay hold of Him with the hand of faith. It was no great matter for the Word to rescue His flesh from the hands of flesh.

Augustine · 4th century

Christ, after discoursing on some high truth, commonly retires immediately, to give time to the fury of people to abate, during His absence. Thus He did now: He went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized. He went there that He might recall to people’s minds, what had gone on there; John’s preaching and testimony to Himself.

Chrysostom · 4th century
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