Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 11:24-26

"The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out. And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh [to him] seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first." — Luke 11:24-26 (ASV)

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man.—See Notes on Matthew 12:43-45. Here the only variations are:

1. the omission of the house being empty,
2. and the application of the parable to this wicked generation.