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John 10:21

But others said, “What he is saying is not something a man whom a demon is controlling would say. ◄No demon could enable a blind man to see like he did!/ How could a demon enable a blind man to see like he did?► [RHQ]”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

In Context

20Many of them said, “A demon is controlling him and has caused him to become crazy. ◄It is useless to listen to him!/Why should we listen to him?► [RHQ]”

22Then it was time for the celebration to remember when our ancestors rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in winter.

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Cross References

Exodus 8:19The men who worked magic said to the king, “It is God who has done this with his power [MTY]!” But the king continued to be stubborn [IDM], and he would not pay attention to us, just as Yahweh had predicted.

Psalms 146:8Yahweh enables those who are blind to see again. He lifts up those who have fallen down. He loves righteous people.

Isaiah 35:5When he does that, he will enable blind people to see and enable deaf people to hear.

Matthew 11:5I am enabling blind people to see and lame people to walk. I am healing people who have leprosy. I am enabling deaf people to hear and dead people to become alive again. I am telling poor people God’s good message.

John 9:32No one has ever enabled a man to see who was blind when he was born like I was. That has never happened since the world began!

Matthew Henry on John 10:20-22

Sentiments Concerning Christ. 19 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 hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? We have here an account of the people's different sentiments concerning Christ, on occasion of the foregoing discourse; there was a division, a schism, among them; they differed in their opinions, which threw them into heats and parties.… Read the whole commentary →

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