Many of Jesus' hearers believed in him (John 8:30). Verse 31 moves Jesus' dialogue from the Pharisees to the Jews who had believed in him (). Many English translations have "Jews who believed in Him" Anglican Bishop Charles Ellicott identifies a contrast and "perhaps, something of wonder" in the idea that there were Jews who were believers. The tone of verses 31 to 59 is critical and argumentative with this group; the Pulpit Commentary finds them to be believers of "the most imperfect kind", who "accepted the Messianic claims Jesus, but persisted in interpreting them, not by his word, but by their own ideas of the theocratic kingdom, by their privileges as children of Abraham, by their national animosity to their nearest neighbours the Samaritans, by their inability to press behind the veil of his humanity to his Divine nature".