2 “Did not Moses,” says He, “give you the law, and yet none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?” For you seek to kill me just for this reason, that none of you does the law; for if you did do the law, you would recognize Christ in its very letters, and you would not kill Him when present with you. And they answered: “The crowd answered Him;” answered as a tumultuous crowd, things not pertaining to order, but to confusion; in a word, the crowd was disturbed. See what answer it made: “You have a devil: who seeks to kill you?” As if it were not worse to say, “You have a devil,” than to kill Him. To Him, indeed, was it said, that He had a devil, who was casting out devils. What else can a turbulent disorderly crowd say? What else can filth stirred up do but stink? The crowd was disturbed; by what? By the truth. For the eyes that have not soundness cannot endure the brightness of the light.
Source: Tractates on the Gospel of John (New Advent)