John Chapter 7 verse 20 Holy Bible
The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?
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The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?
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The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?
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The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
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The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
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The multitude answered and said, `Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 20-24. - (3) Treatment of the ignorance and insolence of the multitude. Verse 20. - The multitude, who broke out in angry and ignorant remonstrance, answered (and said). Thou hast a daemon. Who is seeking to kill thee? Thou must have some evil spirit tormenting thee with such cruel and melancholy foreboding (cf. John 8:48; John 10:20). This was an outburst of insolent and ignorant amazement on their part, that One who taught so wonderfully "should imagine what they deem a moral impossibility and dark delusion" (Meyer). The design rankling in the hearts of the authorities was too well known to our Lord, and, not deigning to notice the interruption and the insult, he continued -
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) The people.--They know that the rulers have sought for Him (John 7:11), but are not aware of their intention to kill Him. When this is referred to, it is "by some of them of Jerusalem" (John 7:25). These pilgrims know how far from their own thoughts is any such idea, and they think that its presence in His thoughts must be the work of a demon. (Comp. Note on Matthew 11:18.) They utter this, not in hostility, but in wonder that He can think so.
