John 7:20
The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
KJV
ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ὄχλος· δαιμόνιον ἔχεις· τίς σε ζητεῖ ἀποκτεῖναι;
Greek NT
Quid me quæritis interficere ? Respondit turba, et dixit : Dæmonium habes : quis te quærit interficere ?
Vulgate
The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?
ASV
Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δαιμόνιον
daimonion
noun · 63×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
verb · 74×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὄχλος
ochlos
noun · 173×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ὄχλος | WH/Treg/NIV: ὄχλος | RP: + καὶ εἶπεν
- ὄχλος — SBLGNT
- ὄχλος — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + καὶ εἶπεν — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. A great matter, beloved, a great matter it is to preside over a Church: a matter needing wisdom and courage as great as that of which Christ speaks, that a man should lay down his life for the sheep, and never leave them deserted or naked; that he should stand against the wolf nobly. For in this the shepherd differs from the hireling; the one always looks to his own safety, …
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
- 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 8:48 — 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.
- John 10:20 — And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
- John 10:20 — And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
- 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 3:22 — And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
- 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.