Matthew Poole and continuators on John 7:35

35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him c? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles ?

In the Greek it is, Will he go into the dispersion of the Grecians. There were two most Famous dispersions, of which we read in story. The first was of the Iews, of which we read in Sacred History, in the Captivities of Assyria (whither the Ten Tribes were carried, 2 Kings 17.6.) and Babylon, whither the two Tribes were carried, 2 Kings 17.25. And that of the Grecians by the Macedonians; when also many of the Iews were dispersed by Alexander the Great, and his Successors. Peter directeth his Epistle to the Strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bythynia, 1 Pet. 1.1. And Iames directs his Epistle to the Twelve Tribes scattered abroad. They fancy that our Saviour would go into some of these places, and Preach; by which means the Gentiles would be taught the Mysteries of the Iewish Religion, which was what above all things they were impatient of hearing; and yet had reason from the Prophecies of the Old Testament, to fear, viz. their own Rejection, and the receiving in of the Gentiles, which afterward came to pass, Rom. 11.15.

The Iews, not at all believing the Divine Nature of Christ, notwithstanding all that Christ had said, and all the Miracles he had wrought, are at a mighty loss to conclude what our Saviour spake of, and whither he would go; they thought he could go no where in the Land of Iewry, but they should hear of him, and be able to come where he was; they conclude therefore that he would go into some Pagan Countrey.

Marginal references: Or, Greeks.