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Joh_10:19-21. Πάλιν ] see Joh_9:16.
ἐν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις .] These words refer to the Pharisees (Joh_9:40) who, in keeping with their relationship to Jesus (against De Wette), are designated according to the class to which they belonged (as the Jewish hierarchical opposition). The majority of them clung to the hostile judgment (compare Joh_8:48), which they had contemptuously expressed; some of them, however, felt themselves impressed, and deny the assertion of the rest. Comp. Joh_9:16.
τί αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε ] i.e. of what use is it to you to listen to His discourses?
καὶ μαίνεται ] in consequence of being possessed by a demon.
μὴ δαιμόνιον , etc.] surely a demon cannot, etc.; a confirmation of that denial from the miracle which had given rise to the entire discussion. We see from this that these ἄλλοι belonged to the more unprejudiced and conscientious class which had given expression to its feelings in Joh_9:16. At the same time, the conclusion must not be drawn that they would have refused to recognise any demoniacal miracles (were they even in themselves beneficent),
Mat_12:24 is opposed to this view; but they believed it impossible to attribute a miracle of so great a kind to a demon, who must have been working through the medium of Jesus. Note, moreover, that even here they do not get further than a negative judgment.