Spoil (διαρπασα). Plunder, compound verb, thoroughly ransack. Picture of Satan plundering the demons, the very tools (σκευη) by wh…

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…

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…

No man can enter into a strong man's house
This is properly a parable; the other seem to be proverbs, or sayings, that were co…

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…