48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
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The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
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 many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
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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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, a…
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