John 10:20 BSB — MannaFest

John 10:20

Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Bonaventure

Commentary on John, Chapter 10 (1257)

"And many of them said: He has a devil and is mad": whence they thought that he was mad. These were of those concerning whom First Corinthians chapter two says: "The sensual man does not perceive the things that are of God; for it is …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

There was a division . . . again among the Jews for these sayings--the light and the darkness revealing themselves with increasing clearness in the separation of the teachable from the obstinately prejudiced.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἔλεγον	elegon	Were saying	G3004 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
πολλοὶ	polloi	many	G4183 →
ἐξ	ex	of	G1537 →
αὐτῶν·	autōn	them;	G846 →
δαιμόνιον	daimonion	A demon	G1140 →
ἔχει	echei	He has	G2192 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μαίνεται·	mainetai	is insane;	G3105 →
τί	ti	why	G5101 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	to Him	G846 →
ἀκούετε;	akouete	do you listen?	G191 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 7:20
“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
leads to
- John 8:48
  The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Mark 3:21
When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”
leads to
- Acts 26:24
  At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”
- Mark 3:31
  Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him,
- John 7:3–10
  So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
Through
Matthew 10:25
It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his…
leads to
- Matthew 9:34
  But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that He drives out demons.”
- Matthew 12:24
  But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”
- Luke 11:15
  but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”
- John 7:20
  “You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”