John 2:18 (BSB)
On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
Commentary on John 2:18
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on John 2:18: 18. What sign showest thou to us? When in so large an assembly no man laid hands on Christ, and none of the dealers in cattle or of the money-changers repelled him by violence, we may conclude that they were all stunned and struck with astonishment by the hand of God.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on John 2:12-22: Here we have, I. The short visit Christ made to Capernaum, Joh 2:12. It was a large and populous city, about a day's journey from Cana; it is called his own city (Mat 9:1), because he made it his head-quarters in Galilee, and what little rest he had was there.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on John 2:18: Then answered the Jews, and said unto him,.... They did not lay hands on him, or offer any violence to him; they did not, as the inhabitants of Nazareth did, thrust him out, and lead him to a precipice, to cast him down headlong; nor did they take up stones to stone him, as they afterwards did, when he asserted his deity: and it is...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on John 2:18: Verse 18. What sign, &c. What miracle dost thou work? He assumed the character of a prophet. He was reforming, by his authority, the temple. It was natural to ask by what authority this was done; and as they had been accustomed to miracles in the life of Moses, and Elijah, and the other prophets, so they demanded evidence that he had authority thus to cleanse the house of God.