20And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
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The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. …
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
He was taken from prison 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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-21)We have here an account of the people’s different sentiments concerning Christ, on occasion of the foregoing discourse; there was a division, a schism , among them; they differed in their opinions, which threw them into heats and parties. Such a ferment as this they had been in before ( John 7:43 ; 9:16 ); and where there has once been a division again. Rents are sooner made than made up or mended…
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