John 7:20

Updated Bible Version

The multitude answered, You have a demon: who seeks to kill you?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you?”

King James Version (1611)
The people answered, and sayd, Thou hast a deuill: Who goeth about to kill thee?

King James Version
The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?

English Standard Version
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"

New American Standard Bible
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill You?"

New Century Version
The people answered, "A demon has come into you. We are not trying to kill you."

Amplified Bible
The crowd answered, "You have a demon [You are out of Your mind]! Who wants to kill You?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?"

Legacy Standard Bible
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?"

Berean Standard Bible
"You have a demon," the crowd replied. "Who is trying to kill You?"

Contemporary English Version
The crowd replied, "You're crazy! What makes you think someone wants to kill you?"

Complete Jewish Bible
"You have a demon!" the crowd answered. "Who's out to kill you?"

Darby Translation
The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?

Easy-to-Read Version
The people answered, "A demon is making you crazy! We are not trying to kill you."

Geneva Bible (1587)
The people answered, and said, Thou hast a deuil: who goeth about to kill thee?

George Lamsa Translation
The people answered, saying, You are crazy; who wants to kill you?

Good News Translation
"You have a demon in you!" the crowd answered. "Who is trying to kill you?"

Lexham English Bible
The crowd replied, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"

Literal Translation
The crowd answered and said, You have a demon. Who seeks to kill You?

American Standard Version
The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?

Bible in Basic English
The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?

Hebrew Names Version
The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

International Standard Version
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"John 8:48,52; 8:20;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
The people answered, saying, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee ?

Murdock Translation
Why do ye seek to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The people aunswered and sayde: Thou hast the deuyll, who goeth about to kyll thee?

English Revised Version
The multitude answered, Thou hast a devil: who seeketh to kill thee?

World English Bible
The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Yet none of you keepeth the law. Why seek ye to kill me? The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?

Weymouth's New Testament
"You are possessed by a demon," replied the crowd; "no one wants to kill you."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
What seken ye to sle me? And the puple answerde, and seide, Thou hast a deuel; who sekith to sle thee?

Webster's Bible Translation
The people answered and said, Thou hast a demon: who goeth about to kill thee?

New English Translation
The crowd answered, "You're possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

New King James Version
The people answered and said, "You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill You?"

New Living Translation
The crowd replied, "You're demon possessed! Who's trying to kill you?"

New Life Bible
The people said, "You have a demon in You. Who is trying to kill You?"

New Revised Standard
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The multitude answered - A demon, thou hast: Who, is seeking, to slay, thee?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?

Revised Standard Version
The people answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The people answered and sayde: thou hast the devyll: who goeth aboute to kyll the?

Young's Literal Translation
The multitude answered and said, `Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The people answered, and sayde: Thou hast the deuell, who goeth aboute to kyll the?

Mace New Testament (1729)
for what do ye attempt to kill me? the people answered, saying, you are mad: who attempts to kill you?

THE MESSAGE
The crowd said, "You're crazy! Who's trying to kill you? You're demon-possessed."

Simplified Cowboy Version
This riled everyone up, and people started yelling, "A demon has you hog-tied! Who is trying to kill you?"

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. ¹⁵ The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How does this man know letters, having never learned? ¹⁶ Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me. ¹⁷ If any man wills to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself. ¹⁸ He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. ¹⁹ Has not Moses given you the law? And [yet] none of you does the law. Why do you seek to kill me? ²⁰ The multitude answered, You have a demon: who seeks to kill you? ²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and you all marvel because thereof. ²² Moses has given you circumcision- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers- and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou: John 8:48, John 8:52, John 10:20, Matthew 10:25, Matthew 11:18, Matthew 11:19, Matthew 12:24, Mark 3:21, Mark 3:22, Mark 3:30, Acts 26:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:6 - a reproach Matthew 5:22 - Whosoever Luke 11:15 - He John 5:16 - and sought John 7:25 - Is not John 8:22 - Will

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
You covered it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Jeremiah 3:23
Truly, delusion comes from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: [but] truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The people answered and said,.... These seem to be the country people, who came from Galilee and other parts, who knew nothing of the designs of the Jerusalem Jews upon him; nor were they his downright enemies at least, but rather seemed to favour him, and were on his side, though greatly provoked to hear him talk after this manner:

thou hast a devil; or art possessed with one; thou talkest like one of the demoniacs, like a madman, one beside thyself; whom the devil has so much power over, and has so deprived of thy senses, that thou knowest not what thou sayest:

who goeth about to kill thee? no man; for they could not believe that any man, or body of men, would be so wicked, as to attempt to take away the life of so harmless a person, and who did so much good both to the bodies and souls of men.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The people - Perhaps some of the people who were not aware of the designs of the rulers.

Thou hast a devil - Thou art deranged or mad. See John 10:20. As they saw no effort to kill him, and as they were ignorant of the designs of the rulers, they supposed that this was the effect of derangement.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:20. Thou hast a devil — The crowd, who made this answer, were not in the secret of the chief priests. They could not suppose that any person desired to put him to death for healing a diseased man; and therefore, in their brutish manner, they say, Thou hast a demon-thou art beside thyself, and slanderest the people, for none of them desires to put thee to death. The Codex Cyprius (K,) four others, and the margin of the later Syriac, attribute this answer to the Jews, i.e. those who were seeking his life. If the reading, therefore, of οι Ιουδαιοι, the Jews, be received instead of ο οχλος, the multitude, it serves to show the malice of his enemies in a still stronger light: for, fearing lest their wish to put him to death might not be gratified, and that his teaching should prevail among the common people; to ruin his credit, and prevent his usefulness, they give out that he was possessed by a demon; and that, though he might be pitied as a miserable man, yet he must not be attended to as a teacher of righteousness. Malice and envy are ever active and indefatigable, leaving no stone unturned, no mean unused, that they may win the object of their resentment. John 7:26.