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47 Then the Pharisees responded to them: "Are you fooled too?
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John 7:47 Meaning and Commentary
Then answered them the Pharisees, are ye also deceived?
] As well as the common people; you that have been so long in our service, and should know better; or who, at least, should have taken the sense of your superiors, and should have waited to have had their opinion and judgment of him, and been determined by that, and not so hastily have joined with a deluded set of people. It was the common character of Christ, and his apostles, and so of all his faithful ministers in all succeeding ages, that they were deceivers, and the people that followed them deceived, a parcel of poor deluded creatures, carried aside by their teachers; when, on the other hand, they are the deceived ones, who live in sin, and indulge themselves in it; or who trust in themselves that they are righteous; who think they are something, when they are nothing; who imagine, that touching the righteousness of the law, they are blameless, are free from sin, and need no repentance; who follow the traditions and commandments of men: whereas these cannot be deceived, who follow Christ, the way, the truth, and the life, and his faithful ministers, who show unto men the way of salvation.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
John 7:47 In-Context
45 Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why haven't you brought Him?"
46 The police answered, "No man ever spoke like this!"
48 Have any of the rulers believed in Him? Or any of the Pharisees?
49 But this crowd, which doesn't know the law, is accursed!"
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