John 10:20

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Summary

John 10:20

And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

He hath

Why

General references

Mark 3:30

Luke 12:52

Bible References

He hath

[Someone from] the crowd answered, "You have an evil spirit [in you]; who is trying to kill you?"

The Jews answered and said to Jesus, "Were we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan [See note on 4:9], and are dominated by an evil spirit?"

But the Pharisees said, "He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits."

A disciple is doing well if he can be [as good] as his teacher, and the slave [as good] as his master. If they have called the master of the house [i.e., Jesus] Beelzebub [i.e., the chief of evil spirits. See Mark 3:22], how much more [likely] will they call members of his household [i.e., the disciples] the same thing!

When His relatives [or friends] heard about this [i.e., all that He was doing], they went out to take custody of Him [for safety reasons?], for people were saying, "He has lost his mind."

As Paul made his defense in this way, Festus said to him loudly, "Paul, you are crazy. All your education is driving you insane."

Why

The guards answered, "No one has ever spoken like this man."

The person who belongs to God listens to the message from God. The reason you will not listen to it is because you do not belong to God."

Then they began ridiculing him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are Moses' disciples.

When Paul was about to respond [to this charge], Gallio said to the Jews, "[My] Jewish [constituents], if it were a simple case of wrongdoing or some serious crime, there would be good reason for me to consider your charge [against this man].

All they had was a controversy with him over their own religion and about someone named Jesus, who had died [but] whom Paul alleges is [now] alive.

Then King Agrippa, [his wife] Bernice, Governor [Festus] and [the commanders and leading men of the city, 25:23] all rose up,

General references

Jesus said all this because these experts in the law of Moses had been saying, "He has an evil spirit in him."

For from now on there will be a household of five persons divided [against one another], three against two and two against three.