Matthew 12:45
Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in, and make their home there; and the last state of that man proves to be worse than the first. So, too, will it be with this wicked generation.’
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Matthew 12:24But the Pharisees heard of it and said, ‘He drives out demons only by the help of Beelzebul the chief of the demons.’
Matthew 21:38But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other “Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.”
Matthew 23:24You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to swallow a camel!
Mark 5:9And he asked him, ‘What is your name?’ ‘My name,’ he said, ‘is Legion, for there are many of us;’
Luke 11:26Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in, and make their home there; and the last state of that person proves to be worse than the first.’
Luke 19:41When he drew near, on seeing the city, he wept over it, and said,
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 →