20The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
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And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
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.
And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. …
Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-36)Here is, I. Christ’s public preaching in the temple (John 7:14): He went up into the temple, and taught , according to his custom when he was at Jerusalem. His business was to preach the gospel of the kingdom, and he did it in every place of concourse. His sermon is not recorded, because, probably, it was to the same purport with the sermons he had preached in Galilee, which were recorded by the o…
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