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John 7:20

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[Someone from] the crowd answered, “You have an evil spirit [in you]; who is trying to kill you?”

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A disciple is doing well if he can be [as good] as his teacher, and the slave [as good] as his master. If they have called the master of the house [i.e., Jesus] Beelzebub [i.e., the chief of evil spirits. See Mark 3:22], how much more [likely] will they call members of his household [i.e., the disciples] the same thing!

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man does not drive out evil spirits except by [the power of] Beelzebub, the chief of evil spirits.”

But the Pharisees said, “He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits.”

Jesus said all this because these experts in the Law of Moses had been saying; “He has an evil spirit in him.”

Many of them said, “This man is dominated by an evil spirit; he is crazy, why listen to him?”

The Jews answered and said to Jesus, “Were we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan [See note on 4:9], and are dominated by an evil spirit?”

Jesus answered; “I am not dominated by an evil spirit. But I give honor to my Father and you people dishonor me.

The Jews [i.e., the authorities] replied, “Now we know that you are dominated by an evil spirit. Abraham and the prophets [all] died and [yet] you are saying, ‘If a person obeys my message, he will never experience death.’

As Paul made his defense in this way, Festus said to him loudly, “Paul, you are crazy. All your education is driving you insane.”




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