²² The people^[a] asked, “Is he planning to commit suicide? What does he mean, ‘You cannot come where I am going’?”

⁵² The people said, “Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Even Abraham and the prophets died, but you say, ‘Anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!’

⁴⁸ The people retorted, “You Samaritan devil! Didn’t we say all along that you were possessed by a demon?”

¹³ So let us go out to him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace he bore.

³ Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people;^[a] then you won’t become weary and give up.

²⁰ Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”

³⁵ The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. “Where is he planning to go?” they asked. “Is he thinking of leaving the country and going to the Jews in other lands?^[a] Maybe he will even teach the Greeks!

²⁰ The crowd replied, “You’re demon possessed! Who’s trying to kill you?”