{There arose a division again} (schisma palin egeneto).
As in  7:43  in the crowd (also in  7:12,31 ), so now among the
hostile Jews (Pharisees) some of whom had previously professed
belief in him ( 8:31 ). The direct reference of palin (again)
may be to  9:16  when the Pharisees were divided over the problem
of the blind man. Division of opinion about Jesus is a common
thing in John's Gospel ( 6:52,60,66  7:12,25ff.  8:22  9:16f.  10:19,24,41  11:41ff.  12:19,29,42  16:18f. ).