Matthew 12:45
So it goeth and taketh with it seven other spirits, worse than itself, and they enter and dwell in it; and the end of that man is worse than his beginning. So will it be to this evil generation.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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Matthew 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said: This man doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzebub the prince of demons.
Matthew 21:38But the cultivators, when they saw the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: Come; let us kill him, and retain his inheritance.
Matthew 23:24Ye blind guides, who strain out gnats, and swallow down camels.
Mark 5:9And he demanded of him: What is thy name? And he replied to him: Our name is Legion; for we are many.
Luke 11:26Then he goeth and taketh seven other spirits, worse than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Luke 19:41And as he drew near, and beheld the city, he 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 →