Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings back seven other spirits even more evil than it is, and it enters and lives there. So the person ends up worse than they were at the beginning. That's the way it will be with this evil generation.”

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In The King James Version

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

In Context

44So it says, ‘I'll go back to the place I left,’ and when it returns it finds the place empty, all clean and tidy.

46While he was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers arrived and stood outside, wanting to talk to him.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:24But when the Pharisees heard this, they replied, “This man can only throw out demons through the power of Beelzebub, the chief of demons!”

Matthew 21:38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said to each other, ‘Here's the heir! Come on! Let's kill him so we can take his inheritance!’

Matthew 23:24You blind guides—you strain what you drink to keep out a fly but then you swallow a camel!

Mark 5:9Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion, because we are many!” he replied.

Luke 11:26So it goes and finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. In the end that man is worse off than before.”

Luke 19:41But as he got closer, he saw the city and wept over it.

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 →

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