Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - John 8:48 - 8:48
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon (SamareiteĢs ei su kai daimonion echeis). On the spur of the moment in their rage and fury they can think of no meaner things to say. They know, of course, that Jesus was not a Samaritan, but he had acted like a Samaritan in challenging their peculiar spiritual privileges (Joh 4:9, Joh 4:39). The charge of having a demon was an old one by the Pharisees (Mat 12:24) and it is repeated later (Joh 10:20).