Luke 11:19

by whom do your sons cast them outf The "pupils of the wise" might be called the -sons of the Pharisees" just as the youths in the

Prophetic schools were called -sons of the Prophets." The reality of the Jewish exorcisms is not here necessarily admitted (Acts 19:13). It was enough that the admitted pretensions to such powers among the Pharisees justified this incontrovertible argumentum ad hominem.