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Juan 10:20
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He hath: John 7:20, John 8:48, John 8:52, Matthew 9:34, Matthew 10:25, Mark 3:21, Acts 26:24
why: John 7:46-52, John 8:47, John 9:28, John 9:29, Isaiah 53:8, Acts 18:14, Acts 18:15, Acts 25:19, Acts 25:20, Acts 26:30-32
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:11 - this mad fellow Proverbs 23:9 - he Isaiah 59:15 - maketh himself a prey Jeremiah 29:26 - for every Matthew 11:18 - He Mark 3:30 - General Luke 7:33 - He Luke 11:15 - He John 8:22 - Will 1 Corinthians 2:14 - they 1 Corinthians 14:23 - will Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And many of them said, he hath a devil, and is mad,.... It was a notion of the Jews, that madness or distraction was from the devil, and therefore these two are here joined together, having a devil, and being mad: there is a spirit which they call Tazazith, and which, they say z, is an evil spirit that takes away the understanding of men; and under the influence of such a "demon", the Jews thought Christ to be: and therefore say,
why hear ye him? he is a lunatic, he is distracted, he is a madman; how can you bear to hear such ranting blasphemous stuff, which no man in his, senses would ever utter? nor is anything he says to be regarded, since he is not in his right mind; but is under the power and influence of some evil spirit, which instills these wild and frantic notions into him, and puts him upon venting them; but surely no sober man will ever heed to them.
z R. David Kimchi, Sepher Shorash rad. תזן.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He hath a devil - John 7:20.
Is mad - Is deranged, or a maniac. His words are incoherent and unintelligible.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 10:20. He hath a devil, and is mad — So, then, a demoniac and a madman were not exactly the same in the apprehension of the Jews; no more than the effect is the same with the cause which produces it. Some will have it that, when the Jews told our Lord that he had a demon, they meant no more than that he was deranged; but here these matters are evidently distinguished. They believed him to be possessed by a demon, who deranged his faculties, and that he must have been a wicked man, and a deceiver, thus to be put under the power of such a spirit.
