Charles Ellicott Commentary John 7:13

"Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews." — John 7:13 (ASV)

No man cannot fairly be limited, as it generally has been, to the multitude who believed in Him. It discloses to us rather a reign of terror, in which opinion was stifled, and men dared not speak openly on either side until authority had determined what they should say.