And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews who were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
(c) Mark the economy (of Providence) that appeared (in this). (p. 279, note 1) After the (believing) Jews had been persuaded (concerning him), then it is that those (Jews of Asia) set upon him in order that those (believing Jews) may not also set upon him. Help, say they, ye men of Israel! as though it were some (monster) difficult to be caught, and hard to be overcome, that has fallen into their hands. All men, they say, everywhere, he ceases not to teach; not here only. And then the accusation (is) more aggravated by the present circumstances. And yet more, say they, he has polluted the temple, having brought into it men who are Greeks.
