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Verse 44. _INTO MY HOUSE_] The soul of that person from whom he had
been expelled by the power of Christ, and out of which he was to have
been kept by continual prayer, faith, and watchfulness.
_HE F...
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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; Luke 8:19). For the painful statement in Mark 3:20 f. Mt. ...
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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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FROM WHENCE. whence.
GARNISHED. decorated....
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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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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 t...
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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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ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΨΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G1994)
оборачиваться, возвращаться. Совещат.
FUT. указывает на намерение (VA, 424).
ΈΞΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. 1 pers. sing., см._ Matthew 12:43.
ΈΛΘΌΝ _aor. act...
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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...
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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.
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying,
T...
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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 connecti...
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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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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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EMPTY, SWEPT, AND GARNISHED. — The words have a two-fold symbolism,
as representing (1) the state of the possessed man, and (2) that of
the nation of which he is made the type. The latter belongs to t...
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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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_A sign asked and refused, with relative discourse_ (Luke 11:16; Luke
11:29-36). Both Matt.'s and Luke's reports convey the impression that
the demand for a sign, and the enunciation of the Satanic th...
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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 c...
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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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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
Th...
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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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44._He findeth it empty _Christ is unquestionably describing those
who, being destitute of the Spirit of God, are prepared for receiving
the devil; for believers, in whom the Spirit of God efficacious...
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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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THEN HE SAID, I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE,.... Into the land of Judea,
particularly into the Scribes and Pharisees, outward professors of
religion; who, notwithstanding their outward reformation, and...
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Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and
when he is come, he findeth _it_ empty, swept, and garnished.
Ver. 44. _He findeth it empty_] That is, idle and secure, swept of...
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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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I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE; into the man in whom he had dwelt.
EMPTY; not occupied by any other who would keep him out....
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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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Excerpts of Theodotus
For no longer is there evil in it, since that has been made to cease;
nor yet is there good, since it has not yet received good. But what is
neither good nor evil is nothing. "F...
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Matthew 12:44 Then G5119 says G3004 (G5719) return G1994 (G5692) to
G1519 my G3450 house G3624 which G3606 came G1831 (G5627) And G2532
comes G2064 (G5631) finds G2147 (G5719) empty G4980 (G5723) swep...
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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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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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INTO MY HOUSE
(εις τον οικον μου). So the demon describes the man in
whom he had dwelt. "The demon is ironically represented as implying
that he left his victim voluntarily, as a man leaves his hou...
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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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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. Luke 11:...
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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_.); whic...
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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 tha...
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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 12:46-40); ,and the manner in which he
dealt with it.
MATTHEW 12...
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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 Corinthians 11:19; 1 John 2:19; 1 John 4:4; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1
Timothy 6:4; 1 Timothy 6:5; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Acts
5:1;...
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Whence he came out — He speaks as if he had come out of his own
accord: See his pride! He findeth it empty — of God, of Christ, of
his Spirit: Swept — from love, lowliness, meekness, and all the
fruit...