Mat 12:43, Luk 11:20, Rev 16:13-14, 18:2, 20:1-3 | TSK | STEP | 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

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.

Lu 11:24; Ac 8:13

he.

Job 1:7; 2:2; 1Pe 5:8

dry.

Ps 63:1; Isa 35:6,7; 41:18; Eze 47:8-12; Am 8:11-13

seeking.

8:29; Mr 5:7-13; Lu 8:28-32

Luke 11:20

the finger.

Ex 8:19; Mt 12:28

the kingdom.For the destruction of the kingdom of Satan plainly implies the setting up of the kingdom of God. The reasoning of the Pharisees (ver. 17, and Mt 12:24, 25,) was not expressed, and Jesus knowing their thoughts, gave ample proof of his omniscience. This, with our Lord's masterly confutation of their reasonings, by a conclusion drawn from their own premises, one would have supposed might have humbled and convinced those men; but the most conclusive reasoning, and the most astonishing miracles, were lost upon a people who were obstinately determined to disbelieve every thing that was good relative to Jesus of Nazareth.

10:9,11; Da 2:44; Ac 20:25; 28:23-28; 2Th 1:5