Matthew 12:44

then it says, I will return to my house from where I came forth; and having come, it finds [it] unoccupied, swept, and adorned:

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

In Context

43And when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it walks through dry places seeking rest and does not find;

45then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man becomes worse than the first; so will it also be to this evil generation.”

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Cross References

Psalms 81:11But My people did not listen to My voice, || And Israel has not consented to Me.

Matthew 12:29Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to snatch his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? And then his house he will plunder.

Luke 11:21When the strong man may keep his hall armed, his goods are in peace;

John 12:6And he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

John 13:27And after the morsel, then Satan entered into that one. Jesus, therefore, says to him, “What you do—do quickly”;

Acts 8:18And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Holy Spirit is given, brought money before them,

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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