Commentary Critical and Explanatory
John 10:20
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
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...
HE HATH A DEVIL - John 7:20. IS MAD - Is deranged, or a maniac. His words are incoherent and unintelligible....
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
JOHN 10. THE CLOSE OF THE MINISTRY IN JERUSALEM. [85] John 10:1. The Good Shepherd. The first part of this chapter records Jesus-' teaching on true and false leadership. In John 10:1 we have a close r...
MANY SAID, HE HATH. DEVIL AND IS MAD. It was. common belief among the Jews that the agency of demons could produce supernatural effects. See Matthew 12:24. It was. very convenient way, therefore, of...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. Many of them said: "He has an evil spirit, and he is mad. Why do you listen to him?" Others said: "These are not the words of a man po...
DEVIL. demon. Greek. _daimonion._ Compare John 8:48, and Matthew 12:24....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_He hath a devil_ See last note on John 8:48, and comp. John 7:20....
ΔΑΙΜ. ἜΧΕΙ. See last note on John 8:48 and comp. John 7:20. ΤΊ ΑΥ̓. ἈΚ. They are uneasy at the impression produced by these discourses and seek to discredit their Author,—‘poisoning the wells.’ ΔΑΙΜΟ...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE TEACHING...
Ver 14. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15. As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16. And other sheep I have, which...
_JESUS IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD -- JOHN 10:8-21:_ Jesus claimed to be both the door of the sheep and He claimed to be the Good Shepherd. It is through Jesus alone that man can be saved. Jesus refereed to...
ΜΑΊΝΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΜΑΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G3105) неистовствовать, буйствовать, сходить с ума. Иудеи считали, что причиной яростного, нездорового поведения являются бесы (ABD, 2:140-41; DDD, 452-...
THERE WAS A DIVISION THEREFORE— What our Lord said, affected the minds of the Jews in differentways; for some of them cried out that he was possessed and mad, and that it was folly to hear him: others...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD _Text 10:11-21_ 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. 12 He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, behol...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:11-21 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The Pharisees were the shepherds of Israel. In casting out of the s...
3 John the baptist was the door keeper who opened the door to the true Shepherd. Many another has come claiming to be Israel's shepherd, but they did not come in God's appointed way. 4 The Eastern sh...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
HE HATH A DEVIL, AND IS MAD. — Comp. Note on John 8:48. The words “and is mad” are explanatory of the possession by a demon....
_The result of this discourse briefly described_....
to John 10:21. _The good and the hireling shepherds_....
OUR ASSURANCE OF SAFE-KEEPING John 10:19-30 Our Lord did not shrink from the avowal of His divine origin and glory, when there was need or when they were challenged. See John 4:26; Matthew 26:64. For...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
CHAPTER 8. THE GOOD SHEPHERD John 10:1-29. “ _Truly_, _truly_, _I say unto you_, _The one not coming in through the door_, _but climbing up some other way_, _he is a thief and a robber_.” It is subse...
SECOND SECTION: 10:1-21. THE FIRST DISCOURSE. The following discourse includes three parables: that of the _shepherd_ (John 10:1-6), that of the _gate_ (John 10:7-10), and that of the _good shepherd_...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
“ _There was therefore again a division among the Jews because of these discoursings._ 20. _Many of them said, He is possessed of a demon, and is mad; why do you listen to him?_ 21. _Others said, Thes...
There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. (20) And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? (21) Others said, These are not the words of him that h...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
20._He hath a devil. _They employ the most offensive reproach which they can devise, in slandering Christ, that all may shudder at the thought of hearing him. For wicked men, that they may not be forc...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
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, a...
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? Ver. 20. _He hath a devil, and is mad_] It was a wonder if the heavens did not sweat, the earth melt, and hell gape at the hearing...
_There was a division among the Jews_ These sayings of our Lord “affected the minds of the Jews differently, for some of them cried out that he was possessed and mad, and that it was folly to hear him...
IS MAD; beside himself, through the influence of an evil spirit....
AND MANY OF THEM SAID, HE HATH A DEVIL, I AND IS MAD; WHY HEAR YE HIM?...
The end of the discourse and its effect:...
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
19-21 Satan ruins many, by putting them out of conceit with the word and ordinances. Men would not be laughed out of their necessary food, yet suffer themselves thus to be laughed out of what is far m...
Some of the people said, HE HATH A DEVIL, AND IS MAD; for (as was said before) this was the opinion of the Jews concerning all that were mad and distracted, that it was by the influence of the devil,...
John 10:20 And G1161 many G4183 of G1537 them G846 said G3004 (G5707) has G2192 (G5719) demon...
‘There arose a division among the Judaisers, because of these words. And many of them said, “He has a devil and is mad, why do you listen to him?”. Others said, “These are not the sayings of one posse...
John 10:20-21. AND MANY OF THEM SAID, HE HATH A DEMON, AND IS MAD; WHY HEAR YE HIM? OTHERS SAID, THESE ARE NOT THE SAYINGS OF ONE THAT IS POSSESSED BY A DEMON. CAN A DEMON OPEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND?...
The blind man, restored to sight, is brought before the Pharisees with the view of instituting proceedings against Jesus, who, by the healing on the Sabbath, had violated the sanctity of the day of re...
HE HAS A DEMON AND IS MAD (δαιμονιον εχε κα μαινετα). As some had already said (John 7:20; John 8:48 with the addition of "Samaritan"). So long before in Mark 3:21. An easy way of discounting Jesus...
DEVIL demon. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 7:22). _...
John 10:1. _Verily, verily, I say unto you,_ Now we may be absolutely certain that there is something of the utmost importance wherever Christ uses the solemn asseveration of «Verily, verily,» the sa...
John 10:1. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber._ The positiveness of our Lord's teac...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
_There was a division … for these sayings._ --Here was I. A BAD SPIRIT. 1. Schismatic. “There was a division.” Sad that Christ and His doctrines should divide men into sects. One might have thought...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:20 The charge of demon possession is contradicted by OT teaching that says the Lord gives sight to the blind (Exodus 4:11;...
_And many of them said_, &c....
1-41 CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _Verily, verily_ (that is in truth, most truly and most assuredly), _I say unto you, He that entereth not_, &c. He puts forth this parable to show who He is, and who are His ri...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:1 contain a discourse on false and true leaders and teachers in reference to Christ, under the allegoric parable of the fold and the good shepherd. The enmity...
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
Acts 18:14; Acts 18:15; Acts 25:19; Acts 25:20; Acts 26:24;...