The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” (John 8:48) Now all pretense of civil discourse had been abandoned. These Judeans were decidedly not going to become disciples of Jesus. In their rage they leveled two accusations at Jesus. Revealingly, they accused Jesus of belonging to a despised ethnic minority, and ironically, they accused Jesus of having a demon.
