Matthew 12:43

1 Peter 5:8; Acts 8:13; Amos 8:11-13; Ezekiel 47:8-12; Isaiah 35:6; Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 41:18; Job 1:7; Job 2:2; Luke 11:24; Luke 8:28-32; Mark 5:7-13; Matthew 8:29; Psalms 63:1

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When the unclean spirit ... - The “general sentiment” which our Saviour here teaches is much more easily understood than the illustration which h...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus-' Answer to the Verdict of the Jerusalem Scribes, and the Intervention of His Family ( Mark 3:20-35 *, Luke 11:14-23 ; Luke 11:29-32 ; Lu...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 illustra...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 "...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1358 THE RELAPSED DΖMONIAC Matthew 12:43-45 . When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking re...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. When the unclean spirit - If there had b...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 begin...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A sign demanded. Astounding impudence after they had just ascribed His miracles to Beelzebub, and declared Him possessed with an unclean spirit. It...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 ; Is...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The return of the unclean spirit ( Luke 11:24-26 ). The connexion in St. Matthew is preferable. The expulsion of the evil spirit represents the su...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 whol...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1-30 ; Matthew 12:1-50 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1-30 HITHERTO almost everything has been...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 peop...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"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, A...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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 12:43-45 Wh...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 ] U...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 re...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 re...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Pharisees Ask a Sign. 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees ans...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Matthew 12:45 " .
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 th...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 con...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 mirac...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 12:38-43 Truth through and by life. Consider in what respects Christ was greater than Solomon. I. The Proverbs could not well be spared...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 12:38-39 . Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and sa...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 b...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 necessaril...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 12:1-40 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies ( Matthew 12:1-40 ); (2) from his relations (...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

⁴³ When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 12:43

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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