In parables (εν παραβολαις). In crisp pungent thrusts that exposed the inconsistencies of the scribes and Pharisees. See on Mt 13 …

And the Scribes, etc. See Barnes on Matthew 12:24-32.

The occasion of their saying this was that He had healed a man possessed with…

Said unto them in parables.—The word is used in its wider sense, as including any form of argument from analogy more or l…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: After detailing the blasphemy of the scribes, our Lord shows that what they said was impossible, con…

Jesus replied to the charge by making a comparison. His argument is as follows: I have just cast out demons. Now if I am doing this by Satan’s powe…

And he called them unto him
The Jerusalem Scribes, to come nearer to him, and attend to what he had to say in defenc…

It was plain that the doctrine of Christ had a direct tendency to break the devil's power; and it was as plain that casting him out of the bodies o…