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John 10:20
20but many of them said, He has a demon and raves; why do ye hear him?
John 10:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
- New International Version (NIV)Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)And many of them said, “He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?”
Context of John 10:20
18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father. 19There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words; but many of them said, He has a demon and raves; why do ye hear him? 21Others said, These sayings are not [those] of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes? 22Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
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ἔλεγον δὲ πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν· δαιμόνιον ἔχει καὶ μαίνεται· τί αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε;Read the interlinear
Cross-references for John 10:20
- John 7:20The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?
- John 8:48The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?
- Matthew 9:34But the Pharisees said, He casts out the demons through the prince of the demons.
- Matthew 10:25[It is] sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?
- Mark 3:21And his relatives having heard [of it] went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.
- Acts 26:24And as he answered for his defence with these things, Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much learning turns thee to madness.
- John 7:46The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man [speaks].
- John 8:47He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.
- John 9:28They railed at him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
- Isaiah 53:8He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
- Acts 18:14But as Paul was going to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed it was some wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, of reason I should have borne with you;
- Acts 25:19but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.
- Acts 26:30And the king stood up, and the governor and Bernice, and those who sat with them,
Commentaries on John 10:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20He hath a devil, and is mad - So, then, a demoniac and a madman were not exactly the same in the apprehension of the Jews; no more than the effect is the same with the cause which produces it. Some will have it that, when the Jews told our Lord that he had a demon, they meant no more than that he was deranged; but here these matters are evidently distinguished. They believed him to be possessed by a demon, who deranged his faculties, and that he must have…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20He hath a devil - John 7:20. Is mad - Is deranged, or a maniac. His words are incoherent and unintelligible.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 19-21Verses 19-21 Satan ruins many, by putting them out of conceit with the word and ordinances. Men would not be laughed out of their necessary food, yet suffer themselves thus to be laughed out of what is far more necessary. If our zeal and earnestness in the cause of Christ, especially in the blessed work of bringing his sheep into his fold, bring upon us evil names, let us not heed it, but remember our Master was thus reproached before us.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-21Jesus divided his audience yet again (see also 6:66–69; 7:43; 9:16). His words and actions led people to one of two responses: opposition or faith. He is demon-possessed: Compare 7:20; 8:48–49, 52.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2119-21. There was a division ... again among the Jews for these sayings--the light and the darkness revealing themselves with increasing clearness in the separation of the teachable from the obstinately prejudiced. The one saw in Him only "a devil and a madman"; the other revolted at the thought that such words could come from one possessed, and sight be given to the blind by a demoniac; showing clearly that a deeper impression had been made upon them than…Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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