Mat 12:43-45 | TSK | e4.org | when Had there been no reality in demoniacal possessions, as some have supposed, our Lord would scarcely have appealed to a case of this kind here, to point out the real state of the Jewish people, and their approaching desolation. Had this been only a vulgar error, of the nonsense of which the learned scribes and wise Pharisees must have been convinced, the case, not being in point, because not true, must have been treated with contempt by the very people for whose conviction it was designed. the unclean ; he , ; dry ; , ; ; seeking ; ;

‏ Matthew 12:43-45

when Had there been no reality in demoniacal possessions, as some have supposed, our Lord would scarcely have appealed to a case of this kind here, to point out the real state of the Jewish people, and their approaching desolation. Had this been only a vulgar error, of the nonsense of which the learned scribes and wise Pharisees must have been convinced, the case, not being in point, because not true, must have been treated with contempt by the very people for whose conviction it was designed.

the unclean Luke 11:24; Acts 8:13

he Job 1:7, Job 2:2; 1Pet 5:8

dry Ps 63:1; Isa 35:6-7, Isa 41:18; Ezek 47:8-12; Amos 8:11-13

seeking Matt 8:29; Mark 5:7-13; Luke 8:28-32

my Matt 12:29; Luke 11:21-22; John 13:27; Eph 2:2; 1John 4:4

he findeth Matt 13:20-22; Ps 81:11-12; Hos 7:6; John 12:6, John 13:2; Acts 5:1-3, Acts 8:18-23; 1Cor 11:19; 2Thess 2:9-12; 1Tim 6:4-5, 1Tim 6:9-10; 1John 2:19; Jude 1:4-5; Rev 13:3-4, Rev 13:8-9

seven Matt 12:24; Mark 5:9, Mark 16:9; Eph 6:12

more Matt 23:15

and the Luke 11:26; Heb 6:4-8, Heb 10:26-31, Heb 10:39; 2Pet 2:14-22; 1John 5:16-17; Jude 1:10-13

Even And so it was; for they became worse and worse, as if totally abandoned to diabolical influence, till the besom of destruction swept them away. Matt 21:38-44, Matt 23:32-39, Matt 23:24, Matt 23:34; Luke 11:49-51, Luke 19:41-44; John 15:22-24; Rom 11:8-10; 1Thess 2:15-16