‘The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says,'
In view of the context above in Luke 11:14-23 this wandering spirit must be seen as having been cast out. It would not disembody itself, and now it searches for someone else to possess. But wherever it goes it meets failure. It is as though it is in a desert and can find no place to call home. It ‘passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none.' Palestine was not the best place for finding people who opened themselves to the occult and to idolatry.