Matthew 12:44
Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from where I came out.’ And when he comes, he finds it unoccupied, swept, and adorned.
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Matthew 12:29Or how is one able to enter a strong man's house to plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his household.
Luke 11:21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are in peace.
John 12:6This he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to pilfer the things which were placed in it.
John 13:27And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered him. Therefore Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
Acts 8:18Now when Simon observed that by the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 12:39-46
The Pharisees Ask a Sign. 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this… Read the whole commentary →