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Verse 43. _WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT_] If there had been no reality in
demoniacal possessions, our Lord would have scarcely appealed to a
case of this kind here, to point out the real state of the Jewi...
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WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT ... - The “general sentiment” which our
Saviour here teaches is much more easily understood than the
illustration which he uses. The Jews had asked a sign from heaven that
shou...
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9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP.
CHAPTER 12
1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .)
2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
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JESUS-' ANSWER TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES, AND THE
INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY (Mark 3:20 *, Luke 11:14; Luke 11:29; Luke
12:10;...
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The connexion of Matthew 12:43 is with Matthew 12:30, as is shown by
Lk.; neutrality in the spiritual life cannot last. The point of the
illustration is that the Jews had felt the influence of John an...
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"When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, it goes through waterless
places, seeking for rest, and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will
go back to my house, from which I came out,' and when it come...
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CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50)
In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events
in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments,
times and events on which the whole...
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WHEN. But when. Introducing the allegory.
THE. an. The Art. being inclusive and hypothetic as "a man", which
also has the Art. and is rendered "a".
SPIRIT. Greek. _pneuma._ See App-101.
IS GONE OUT....
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A Figure to illustrate the surpassing Wickedness of the day
Luke 11:24-26, where the connection is different. St Luke, as usual,
omits the direct application to Israel.
The connection is not clearly...
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_dry places_ The waterless desert uninhabited by man was regarded by
the Jews as the especial abode of evil spirits....
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ΔΈ, ‘but,’ introducing the explanation of the facts stated. The
connection is obscured in A.V. by the omission of the particle.
ἈΝΎΔΡΩΝ ΤΌΠΩΝ. The waterless desert uninhabited by man
was regarded by...
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A FIGURE TO ILLUSTRATE THE SURPASSING WICKEDNESS OF THE DAY
Luke 11:24-26, where the connection is different. St Luke, as usual,
omits the direct application to Israel.
This short parable explains th...
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VER 43. "WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN, HE WALKETH
THROUGH DRY PLACES, SEEKING REST, AND FINDETH NONE. 44. THEN HE SAITH,
I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE FROM WHENCE I CAME OUT; AND WHEN HE...
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_THE CLAIMS OF THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:38-45:_ Jesus had every right to
call on people to repent and to be righteous, (1) He is greater than
the temple (Matthew 12:6), (2) He is greater that Jonah (Matt...
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ΈΞΈΛΘΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831),
_см._ Matthew 12:14. _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752)
используется как обобщенное врем.
_прид._ ΔΙΈΡΧΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_
ΔΙΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1330) проходить...
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DISCOURSE: 1358
THE RELAPSED DΖMONIAC
Matthew 12:43. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he
walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he
saith, I will return into my h...
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WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT, &C.— Our Lord here finishes his defence,
alluding to the occasion of the dispute, Matthew 12:22 with a parable
of a possessed person who, having had a devilor demon expelled o...
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Section 29
JESUS GIVES THE SIGN OF JONAH
(Possible Parallel: Luke 11:16; Luke 11:24; Luke 11:26; Luke 11:29-32)
TEXT: 12:38-45
38.
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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry
places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN ... On this important
parable, in connectio...
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42 “The ends of the earth,” an expression which does not include
the sea, would describe any location on Eurasia or Africa not far from
the further coast line.
43-45 Compare Luk_11:24-26
43 Actual i...
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PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST
1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This
chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
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A SIGN DEMANDED. Astounding impudence after they had just ascribed His
miracles to Beelzebub, and declared Him possessed with an unclean
spirit. It was the practice of Jesus to work signs for those wh...
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A MAN] i.e. the Jewish nation.
DRY PLACES] or deserts, were supposed to be the favourite abode of
demons (Tob 8:3; Bar 4:35; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14). These
pictorial details must not be pressed a...
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THE RETURN OF THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT (Luke 11:24). The connexion in St.
Matthew is preferable.
The expulsion of the evil spirit represents the submission of the
nation to the baptism of John, which was a...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 12
QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14
Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law:
1. The *disciples...
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WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN. — The parable comes in
abruptly, possibly because here, as elsewhere, we have a part and not
the whole of a discourse, striking passages noted and put tog...
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Chapter 10
The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1
I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1
HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our
Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
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OPPOSING OR DOING GOD'S WILL
Matthew 12:38-50
It was an evil and adulterous age. It had no spiritual appreciation,
and was intent on getting an outward and sensible sign. Nineveh itself
would have co...
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This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty
and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to
His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
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AWFUL STATE OF THE BACKSLIDER
Matthew 12:43-45. _“When the unclean spirit may go out from a man,
he goeth through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.”_ Here
we see the man is converted; this un...
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CHAPTER 24
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN
Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes
and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from
The...
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"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 si...
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Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a
striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has
been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
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_THE DEVIL DETHRONED_
‘When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man … the last state of
that man is worse than the first.’
Matthew 12:43
When the unclean spirit is gone out, Christ tells what takes...
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43._But when the unclean spirit hath gone out. _He speaks of scribes
and hypocrites of a similar character, who, despising the grace of
God, enter into a conspiracy with the devil. Against such person...
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At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their
contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of
all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's
p...
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WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN,.... By "the unclean"
spirit, is meant Satan, the old serpent, the devil; who by the Jews,
is wont to be called as here, רוח מסאבא, "the unclean spirit"
x;...
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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry
places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Ver. 43. _When the unclean spirit_] Unclean the devil is called: 1.
_Affectione_ (saith Ja...
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_When the unclean spirit_, &c. In these verses, with a view to show
how dreadful the state of the Jewish people would be, if they
continued to reject him and his gospel, our Lord introduces a parable,...
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DRY PLACES; barren and desolate regions, here considered as the haunts
of evil spirits....
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WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN, HE WALKETH THROUGH DRY
PLACES SEEKING REST, AND FINDETH NONE....
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A comparison:...
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We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in
view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state
of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
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38-45 Though Christ is always ready to hear and answer holy desires
and prayers, yet those who ask amiss, ask and have not. Signs were
granted to those who desired them to confirm their faith, as Abr...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:45"....
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
For when the unclean spirit of folly has gone forth, and when
afterwards he finds them not waiting upon God, but occupied with mere
worldly questions, then, "taking s...
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Matthew 12:43 G1161 When G3752 unclean G169 spirit G4151 goes G1831
(G5632) of G575 man G444 goes...
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‘But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes
through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it.'
In Matthew 10:11 the disciples were given power to cast out ‘unclean
spir...
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THE SAD PLIGHT OF THIS GENERATION (12:43-45).
This short illustration takes up the themes that have previously been
presented and is firmly in context. Compare (Matthew 12:1) the being
healed from an...
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Matthew 12:43. The figure in Matthew 12:43-45 refers primarily to the
Jewish people, but is applicable also in the history of Christianity
and to individuals (see on Matthew 12:45).
WHEN. The origina...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE. These occurrences seem to have followed each other
in immediate succession. Luke places the last one (Matthew 12:46-50)
after the parable of the sower, but Mark gives the same order...
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Matthew 12:38
Truth through and by life.
Consider in what respects Christ was greater than Solomon.
I. The Proverbs could not well be spared from the Bible nor dropped
out of the life of the world....
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Matthew 12:38. _Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees
answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he
answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh...
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CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with
Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The
unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of
sel...
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Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon
the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few
ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
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43-45.
WHEN AN EVIL SPIRIT. This is a parable, and its meaning is based on
the last sentence: _"This is the way it will happen to the evil people
of this day."_ This is the climax of the passage which...
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_When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man._
FURNISHED, BUT VACANT
The central lesson of this text is this: that reformation is not
necessarily salvation-that, indeed, reformation without godlines...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:43 Demons were often associated with
WATERLESS PLACES. Apparently deserts were thought of as lacking the
blessing of God that came with rainfall and plentiful crops (see...
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JESUS TEACHES ABOUT UNCLEAN SPIRITS MATTHEW 12:43-45; LUKE 11:24-26;
MATTHEW 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none....
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1-50
CHAPTER XII.
_At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops
of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was
the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 12:38. A SIGN.—See Luke 11:16. They wanted something of an
immediate and decisive nature, to show, not that His miracles were
real—that they seemed willing to concede—but that...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 12:1
The opposition that our Lord met with
(1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1);
(2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
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Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew?
Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in
the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
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1 Peter 5:8; Acts 8:13; Amos 8:11; Ezekiel 47:8; Isaiah 35:6;...
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But how dreadful will be the consequence of their rejecting me? When
the unclean spirit goeth out — Not willingly, but being compelled by
one that is stronger than he. He walketh — Wanders up and down...
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The design and scope of this parable is to show that the Pharisees, by
rejecting the gospel and refusing to believe in Christ, were in.
seven-fold worse condition than if the gospel had never been pre...