Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:59

59 Then took they up stones to cast at him , but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple , going through the midst of them , and so passed by.

As they also did, Chap. 10.31. It is vain to enquire, where they had stones in the Temple: they might be Repairing some part of it, or some parts of it paved with Stones might be loose, &c. It is enough, that we are assured, that some they found

He did not go through the midst of them that were in this uproar, but first thrust himself into the more innocent croud, then passed through the midst of them. Some make a question here, how he could pass through the midst of them: Whither he made his body invisible? (so the Lutherans think) or whither he struck his Enemies with Blindness, or thickned the Air before their Eyes. But what needs that Dispute? admit some few of the Rabble to be in a Rage, the greatest part Innocent, it is no hard thing for us to conceive, how a person discerning the disorder, may thrust himself into the more innocent Croud, and pass by, escaping the rage of his Enemies.

Marginal references: Chap. 10.39. and 11.8; Luk 4.30.