John 7:20
Why do ye seek to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
In Context
19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one of you observeth the law.
21Jesus replied, and said to them: I have wrought one work, and ye all wonder.
Cross References
Matthew 10:25It is sufficient for the disciple, that he be as his rabbi; and the servant, as his lord. If they call the lord of the house Beelzebub, how much more the children of his family?
Matthew 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said: This man doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzebub the prince of demons.
Mark 3:30Because they had said: An unclean spirit is in him.
John 8:52The Jews say to him: Now we know, that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; yet thou sayest: He that keepeth my word, will never taste death.
Acts 26:24And when Paul had extended his defence thus far, Festus cried, with a loud voice: Paul, thou art deranged: much study hath deranged thee.
Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →