25And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
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But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-37)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s glorious conquest of Satan, in the gracious cure of one who, by the divine permission, was under his power, and in his possession, Matt. 12:22. Here observe, 1. The man’s case was very sad; he was possessed with a devil . More cases of this kind occurred in Christ’s time than usual, that Christ’s power might be the more magnified, and his purpose the more manif…
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