But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
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But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
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Yf I by the power of Belzebub caste oute devyls: by whome do youre chyldren cast them out? Therfore shall they be youre iudges.
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If I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whome doe your children cast them out? Therefore shall they be your iudges.
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- Luke 9:49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.”
- Job 15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- Matthew 12:27-28 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.
- Matthew 12:41-42 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
- Luke 11:31-32 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 19:22 “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
- Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils,…
19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
Ver. 19. See Mat 12:38; Mat 16:1; Mar 3:24.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But if I with the, finger of God,.... The…
But if I with the, finger of God,.... The power of God, referring to Exo 8:19 and so the Cabalistic Jews (r) explain it,
"the finger is one of the five in the hand, and is that finger which works by the power of Elohim;''
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it is the same with the Spirit of God; See Gill on Mat 12:28 which is often called the hand of the Lord, Eze 1:3.
(r) R. Mosch in Sepher Hashem, apud Cabal. Denudata. T. I. par. l. p. 146.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. Beelzebub] See Clarke on Mt 10:25.
Verse 19. Beelzebub] See Clarke on Mt 10:25.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Your judges. They will condemn you of injustice, envy,…
Your judges. They will condemn you of injustice, envy, and hatred against me, and blasphemy against God; because when they performed any exorcisms, though they appear but little more than human in their actions, yet you ascribe them to the virtue of God; but when I perform any miracle, though there always appear most evident signs of the power and virtue of God, you ascribe all to the hand and machinations of the devil. (Tirinus)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. by whom do your sons cast them outf]…
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 (Act_19:13). It was enough that the admitted pretensions to such powers among the Pharisees justified this incontrovertible argumentum ad hominem.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain By whom do your sons cast them out? therefore…
By whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But he goes further in his skillful line of argument. "I am not the only one," said Jesus, "who claims to cast out devils. There are those in the midst of you, your sons, who make a similar assertion. Have they too entered into a league with this evil angel?" A question has been raised respecting these professed exorcists of evil spirits whom Jesus here styles "your sons." Who were they? Some, notably the older patristic expositors, have supposed that our Lord here alluded to his own apostles, to whom a measure of this power over unclean spirits was certainly given. Others, that they are identical with the "pupils of the wise," disciples of the great rabbinical schools, such as were presided over by the famous doctors of the Talmud. This is quite possible; but we have no proof that professional exorcists were pupils in any of the known rabbinical schools. It is more likely that by this general term Jesus alluded to the exorcists. These were, at this period of Jewish history, numerous. They are alluded to in Act_19:13; by Josephus ("Ant.," 8:2, 5); mention of them is also specially made in the Talmud, which even describes something of their mode of procedure. Our Lord seems to affirm in some cases, to a certain extent, the efficacy of the power of these exorcists. "These, Jews like yourselves," argued Jesus, "some of them, you know, belonging to your own Pharisee sect, these have in certain cases apparently driven out the evil spirit of insanity: you do not accuse them, do you, of working with an evil angel?" Godet, in the next seven verses, has suggested a new line of interpretation, which, while generally preserving the traditional exposition of the various details, supplies the connecting thought between ver. 23 ("He that is not with me is against me," etc.) and the verses which precede and follow. This, apparently, has never been done satisfactorily by any commentator. Indeed, some, e.g. De Wette and Bleek, are frank enough to confess that they abandon the attempt. In these seven verses Jesus draws two pictures, in which he contrasts one of those expulsions of evil spirits which he works with that of a cure worked by an exorcist.
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