If Jesus had ever spoken in this style, which has nothing of Hebrew, nothing Jewish, nothing Talmudic in it, how, if I may thus express myself, is it that but a single one of his hearers should have so well kept the secret?
[Footnote 1: The verses, chap.xx.30, 31, evidently form the original conclusion.] [Footnote 2: Chap.vi.2, 22, vii.

22.] [Footnote 3: For example, that which concerns the announcement of the betrayal by Judas.] [Footnote 4: See, for example, chaps.ii.25, iii.

32, 33, and the long disputes of chapters vii., viii., and ix.] [Footnote 5: We feel often that the author seeks pretexts for introducing certain discourses (chaps.iii., v., viii., xiii., and following).] [Footnote 6: For example, chap.

xvii.] [Footnote 7: Besides the synoptics, the Acts, the Epistles of St.
Paul, and the Apocalypse, confirm it.] [Footnote 8: John iii.

3, 5.] Literary history offers, besides, another example, which presents the greatest analogy with the historic phenomenon we have just described, and serves to explain it.