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Joh_8:48-49. In Joh_8:42 ff. Jesus had denied that His opponents were sons of God, and had stamped them as children of the devil. This procedure they regard only as a confirmation of the accusation which they bring against Him ( λέγομεν ) of being a Samaritan, i.e. an heretical antagonist of the pure people of God (for in this light did they view that despised people of mixed race), and possessed with a devil (Joh_7:20). So paradoxical, not merely presumptuous (as Luthardt explains Σαμαρ .), and so crazed did the discourse of Jesus appear to them. No reference whatever was intended to Joh_4:5 ff. (Brückner, Ewald). On καλῶς , aptly, comp. Joh_4:17, Joh_12:13.
Joh_8:49. ἐγὼ δαιμόν . οὐκ ἔχω , etc.] The emphatic ἐγώ does not contain a retort by which the demoniacal element would be ascribed to His opponents (Cyril., Lücke),—a reference which would require to be indicated by arranging the words οὐκ ἐγὼ δαιμ . ἔχω ,—but stands simply in opposition to the following καὶ ὑμεῖς . With quiet earnestness, leaving unnoticed the reproach of being a Samaritan, Jesus replies: I for my part am not possessed, but honour (by discourses which you consider demoniacal, but by which I in reality preserve and promote the glory of God) my Father; and you, on your part, what is it that you do? You dishonour me! Thus does He unveil to them the unrighteousness of their abusive language.