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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 11:23

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.”

He then summarises the situation that this produces. There are those who are with Him, and who with Him gather in the harvest of God's chosen ones (Luke 3:17), and there are those who are against Him and who simply scatter those who would be God's grain so that they are lost to the winds. Others see the sentence in terms of gathering and scattering sheep (Ezekiel 34:21 in context; Matthew 9:36; Joh 10:12; 1 Kings 22:17; Jeremiah 50:17; Ezekiel 34), but the idea is the same. And these Scribes and Pharisees have shown which they are. Who is it now who are showing themselves to be influenced by Satan?

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