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Then the Jews answered him, "Don`t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
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Commentators explain that the accusations "you are a Samaritan" and "you have a demon" were not casual slurs. To call someone a "Samaritan" was to label them a heretic and an outcast. The charge of having a demon was equivalent to calling Jesus insane or possessed by an evil spirit. These were some of the most severe insults possible in that culture.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Say we not well. Do we not speak truly?
Thou art a Samaritan. This was a term of contempt and reproach. (See Barn…
Thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon (Σαμαρειτης ε συ κα δαιμονιον εχεις). On the spur of the moment in their rage and fury they …
19th Century
Anglican
Do we not say rightly that you are a Samaritan and have a devil?—The words imply that this saying was customary among the…
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Baptist
Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Do we not say rightly that you are a Samaritan, and have a devil?
You know this form of an…
The hardened opposition to Jesus’ claims appears in an accusation apparently leveled at him frequently that he was “a Samaritan and demon-possessed…
16th Century
Protestant
Do we not say well? They show more and more how greatly they are stupefied by Satan; for, though they are fully convicted, still they are …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then answered the Jews, and said unto him Being incensed to the last degree, that he should say they were of their f…
Observe Christ's disregard of the applause of men. Those who are dead to the praises of men can bear their contempt. God will seek the honour of al…
13th Century
Catholic
1. After mentioning some characteristics of the devil, the Lord then shows that the Jews are imitating them. Our Lord ascribed two kinds of …
