Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
They hurled charges of heresy at Him: calling Him a Samaritan because He preached to them and broke their separation, and a demon-possessed man because He dared say they were not of God. Since He would not affirm their own righteousness, they deemed Him an accuser under demonic influence.
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Amid the blazing golden lamps of the treasury at tabernacles, when all Jerusalem danced in joy, Christ proclaims in the most absolute sense: I am the Light of the World. The Baptist was a burning lamp sent to witness to that Light; but He alone is the true Light that lightens every man coming into the world, the Messiah promised of old.
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Commenting on John 8:12-59
What bitter scorn in their question! By calling Him a Samaritan, they meant more than merely an outsider, they meant an impostor with no claim whatsoever to the title, retorting His own denial of their true descent from Abraham with this fierce contempt.
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