Read verse in KJV Bible Reader
John Gill
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man,.... That is, the devil, who is in, and works in the children of disobedience, whether under a profession of religion or not; whose hearts are unclean like himself, wherefore there he delights to dwell; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "the evil demon": who may be said to go out of a man in appearance, when he outwardly reforms and takes up a...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter, I. Christ teaches his disciples to pray, and quickens and encourages them to be frequent, instant, and importunate in prayer, ver. 1-13. II. He fully answers the blasphemous imputation of the Pharisees, who charged him with casting out devils by virtue of a compact and confederacy with Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, and shows the absurdity and wickedness of it, ver. 14-26....
Charles H. Spurgeon
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, — Satan does sometimes go out of men entirely of his own accord without being turned out. He goes out for a walk, meaning to go back again. Many a man has left off being a drunkard, or left off being lascivious, — for a time: “when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man,” — Luk_11:24. He walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, — This is the kind of “conversion” which is not genuine: “when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man,” — “gone out” of his own accord, — and he may do that; he may leave a man, for a while, with the evil purpose of getting him more completely into his power...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. It was his house all the while; he left it voluntarily, he was not driven out by forge; he simply left it for a time in order that he might return to it, and retain it the more completely. Now he goes back to it.