John 8:48 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁸Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

John 8:48 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 7:20
The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
John 8:52
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.
John 10:20
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Matthew 12:24
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
John 4:9
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 48-50)

Here is, I. The malice of hell breaking out in the base language which the unbelieving Jews gave to our Lord Jesus. Hitherto they had cavilled at his doctrine, and had made invidious remarks upon it; but, having shown themselves uneasy when he complained (John 8:43, 47) that they would not hear him, now at length they fall to downright railing, John 8:48. They were not the common people, but, as i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 48)

48-51. Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?--What intense and virulent scorn! (See He 12:3). The “say we not well” refers to Joh 7:20. “A Samaritan” means more than “no Israelite at all”; it means one who pretended, but had no manner of claim to the title--retorting perhaps, this denial of their true descent from Abraham.