John 8:48
Douay-Rheims
The Jews therefore answered, and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
Origen
(tom. xx. 28.) It is not unlikely too, some may have thought that He held the Samaritan opinion of there being no future state really, and only put forth the doctrine of a resurrection and eternal life, in order gain to the favour of the Jews. They said that He had a devil, because His discourses were above human capacity, those, viz. in which He asserted that God was His Father, and that He had come down from heaven, and others of a like kind: or perhaps from a suspicion, which many had, that He cast out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:48-51
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