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John 10:20

And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

KJV

ἔλεγον οὖν πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν· δαιμόνιον ἔχει καὶ μαίνεται· τί αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε;

Greek NT

Dicebant autem multi ex ipsis : Dæmonium habet, et insanit : quid eum auditis ?

Vulgate

And many of them said, He hath a demon, and is mad; why hear ye him?

ASV

And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δαιμόνιον
daimonion
noun · 63×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μαίνομαι
mainomai
verb · 5×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§574From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him.317 Because of certain acts of his expelling demons, forgiving sins, healing on the sabbath day, his novel interpretation of the precepts of the Law regarding purity, and his familiarity with tax collectors and public sinners318…
§595Among the religious authorities of Jerusalem, not only were the Pharisee Nicodemus and the prominent Joseph of Arimathea both secret disciples of Jesus, but there was also long-standing dissension about him, so much so that St. John says of these authorities on the very eve of Christ's Passion, "many.. . believed in him", though very imperfectly.378 This is not surprising, if o…
1. What I have often said, I will now say, that Christ looks not so much to His own honor as to our salvation; not how He may utter some sublime saying, but how something able to draw us to Him. On which account His sublime and mighty sayings are few, and those also hidden, but the humble and lowly are many, and abound through His discourses. For since by these men were the rat…
1. At all times indeed, but especially then when I reflect upon the achievements of the saints, it comes over me to feel despondency concerning my own condition, because we have not even in dreams experienced the things among which those men spent their whole lives, not paying the penalty of sins, but always doing rightly and yet always afflicted. For consider, I beseech you, E…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 2:14 — But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 2Kgs 9:11 — Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
  • Acts 26:24 — And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
  • Jer 29:26 — The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest pu
  • John 7:20 — The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
  • John 7:20 — The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
  • John 8:47 — He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
  • John 8:48 — Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
  • John 8:52 — Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
  • Luke 11:15 — But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
  • Mark 3:21 — And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
  • Mark 3:21 — And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
  • Mark 3:30 — Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
  • Matt 10:25 — It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
  • Matt 11:18 — For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
  • Prov 23:9 — Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.