John 8:48 — King James Version← Study notes
“Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?”
John 8:48 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · John 8:4817 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on John 8:48
Whenever our Lord said any thing of lofty meaning, the Jews in their insensibility set it down madness: Then answered the Jews and said to Him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a devil?
But how, we may ask, when the Samaritans denied a future life, and the immortality of the soul, could they dare to call our Savior, Who had preached so much on the resurrection and the judgment, a Samaritan? Perhaps they only mean a general rebuke to Him for teaching, what they did not approve of.
The Samaritans were hated by the Jews; they lived in the land that formerly belonged to the ten tribes, who had been carried away.
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