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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father,.... Our Lord illustrates and confirms what he had said before by an instance common among men: the relation between a father and a son is natural, and it is very near; and it is usual for a son, when hungry, and at the proper times of meals, to ask bread of his father: and when he does, will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? If you have the Holy Spirit, you virtually have all good gifts, for the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion.... Of which there are three sorts; some are terrestrial, or land scorpions, scorpions of the earth, a kind of serpents, very venomous and mischievous, to whom the wicked Jews are compared, Ezekiel 2:6 and the locusts in Revelation 9:3 others are airy, or flying scorpions, a sort of fowl; and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children,.... [See comments on Matthew 7:11]. How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? instead of the Holy Spirit here, the Vulgate Latin version reads, "good Spirit", and so two copies of Beza's; and the Ethiopic version, "the good gift of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he was casting out a devil,.... At a certain time, either the same that is recorded in Matthew 9:32 or in Matthew 12:22 for both of them were attended with the same effect upon the people, and with the same calumny of the Pharisees, mentioned here: and it was dumb. The Ethiopic version reads, "deaf and dumb"; that is, the devil, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. So that this poor man could not obey the Saviour’s teaching. He could not pray, for he was under the influence of a dumb devil. How many of that sort there are still in the world! They cannot speak with God, they have never learned to pray, for they are possessed by a dumb devil. Luk_11:14. And it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. One would hardly have thought that they could have gone to such a length as that; but when men hate Christ, there is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But some of them said,.... The Pharisees, Matthew 9:34 Matthew 12:24 who could not bear that he should be thought to be the Messiah, and therefore put an ill construction on the miracle: he casteth out devils through Beelzebub, the chief of devils; in several copies he is called Beelzebul, and in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; which last adds...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. They could not have uttered a fouler falsehood than this; and if people thus slandered the Lord Jesus Christ, we need not be surprised if they speak ill of us.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And others tempting him,.... Others of the Scribes and Pharisees, or Sadducees: sought of him a sign from heaven; [See comments on Matthew 12:38], [See comments on Matthew 16:1].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven. Yet they had a very striking one in the dumb devil being cast out of the man; what clearer sign than that could they have?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven. “You are working this work from beneath,” they said, “now do something that is really from above.” They must have known that the casting out of the devil was from heaven, for Satan would never cast out Satan.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he knowing their thoughts,.... Being God omniscient, said unto them; the following parables, as they are called in Mr 3:23 or proverbial expressions, very pertinent to the purpose, and sufficient to set aside the base calumnies of the Pharisees: every kingdom divided against itself, is brought to desolation; in process of time, division will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. If Satan cast out Satan, his kingdom would soon come to an end....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he, knowing their thought, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. That was a very good and sufficient answer to these cavillers. It...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?.... This is the accommodation of the above parables, or proverbial sentences; suggesting, that Satan must be against himself, if what the Pharisees said was true; and consequently, his kingdom and government, could not long subsist: because ye say that I cast out devils...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils,.... Which is what the Pharisees charged him with; in the Greek copies, and so in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions it is read, "by Beelzebul", and so in the preceding verses; [See comments on Matthew 10:25] By whom do your sons cast them out? by whose help? or in whose name? for the Jews pretended to cast out...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons, cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore shall they be your judges. For some of these men had sons, who either did really cast out devils, being disciples of Christ, or else professed to do so, being exorcists, pretending to a power they did not possess. In either case, the argument was good as against...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if I with the, finger of God,.... The power of God, referring to Exodus 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;'' it is the same with the Spirit of God; [See comments on Matthew 12:28] which is often called the hand of the Lord, Ezekiel...