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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
They multiply expressions of assurance among themselves, and advance as it were to more manifest proof, beholding the unperilled boldness of Christ. For they are astonished and that with the greatest reason at finding those that were of old ungodly brought to an unpractised and unwonted patience and, beholding those who had been violent practising a gentleness that was new to them, they thence go forth into reasonable surmises: and in that they wonder at their forbearance in those matters in which they |515 ought never to have been …
Theophylact of Ohrid
They wonder, "have not the rulers come to know that He is truly the Christ?" And they do not stop at this thought, but draw the following conclusion: Where the Christ will come from, no one knows. But where this man is from — we know. Therefore, this is not the Christ.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Again, they were amazed that Christ was openly teaching; so they said: Look, he is speaking publicly, i.e., Christ was teaching, an indication of the secure possession of the truth, "I have spoken publicly" (below 18:20), and they say nothing to him, held back by divine power. For it is a characteristic of God's power that he prevents the hearts of evil men from carrying out their evil plans. …
Bonaventure
"And behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him," and at this they marvel, and from their marvel, when they ought to have been aroused to faith, they proceed to a lying objection: "Have the rulers indeed recognized that this is the Christ?" As if to say: they can suspect, but they cannot truly know.
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