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Gill's Exposition
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,…
Barnes' Notes
He hath a devil - Joh 7:20. Is mad - Is deranged, or a maniac. His words are incoherent and unintelligible.
Adam Clarke
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 which produces it. Some…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
He hath a devil See last note on Joh 8:48, and comp. Joh 7:20.
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