His parents said these [things] because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed [that] He [was] Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
Gurasoek agintarien beldur zirelako erantzun zuten horrela, ordurako agintariek erabakia baitzuten Jesus Mesias zela aitortzen zuena beren elkartetik botatzea.