John 7:49
But this am ha'aretz crowd has no da'as of Torah and is cursed. + 7:49 Dt 27:26
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 5:21Hoy unto them that are chachamim in their own eyes, 1 and clever in their own sight! 1
Isaiah 29:14Therefore, hineni, I will again do an astonishing work among this people, 1 even a marvellous work and a peleh (wonder); 1 for the chochmah of their chachamim shall perish, 1 and the binah (understanding) of their sages shall vanish. 1
John 9:34They answered and said to him, You were born totally B'AVON (in sin) + 9:34 Ps 51:5 [7] and you teach us? And they threw him out.
1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the chacham (wise man)? Where is the sofer (scribe) of the yeshiva, where is the talmid chacham? Where is the philosophical debater of the Olam Hazeh? Did not Hashem make the so-called chochmah (wisdom) of the Olam Hazeh to look like narrishkait? + 1:20 Isa 19:11,12; Job 12:17; Isa 44:25; Jer 8:9
James 3:13Who has chochmah and binah among you? Let him show by his hitnahagut hatovah (good conduct) that the ma'asim of him are of the shiflut (lowliness) of chochmah.
Matthew Henry on John 7:46-53
The Officers' Testimony of Christ. 45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? 46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. 47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. 50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) 51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him,… Read the whole commentary →