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John Trapp Complete Commentary

John 10:20

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 of these horrid blasphemies. Tigers rage at the fragrance of sweet spices; so did these monsters at our Saviour's sweet sermons.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE HATH A DEVIL - John 7:20. IS MAD - Is deranged, or a maniac. His words are incoherent and unintelligible....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DEVIL. demon. Greek. _daimonion._ Compare John 8:48, and Matthew 12:24....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _He hath a devil_ See last note on John 8:48, and comp. John 7:20....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE TEACHING...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The result of this discourse briefly described_....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    to John 10:21. _The good and the hireling shepherds_....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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_...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “ _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    IS MAD; beside himself, through the influence of an evil spirit....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND MANY OF THEM SAID, HE HATH A DEVIL, I AND IS MAD; WHY HEAR YE HIM?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The end of the discourse and its effect:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    John 10:20 And G1161 many G4183 of G1537 them G846 said G3004 (G5707) has G2192 (G5719) demon...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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?...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    DEVIL demon. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 7:22). _...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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;...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _And many of them said_, &c....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 18:14; Acts 18:15; Acts 25:19; Acts 25:20; Acts 26:24;...

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