Juan 7:20

Filipino Cebuano Bible

20 Ug ang mga tawo mitubag, "Giyawaan ka! Kinsa bay naninguha sa pagpatay kanimo?"

Bible Verse Review
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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

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.