Matthew 12:44

Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept, and put in order.

Text-Critical English NT

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

43“When an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it goes through waterless places seeking rest, but does not find any.

45Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that person becomes worse than the first. So will it be with this evil generation also.”

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Cross References

Matthew 12:29Or how can anyone enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

Luke 11:21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are secure.

John 12:6(He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he was the keeper of the moneybag and would pilfer what was put into it.)

John 13:27After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What yoʋ are about to do, do quickly.”

Acts 8:18When Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, 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 →

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