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If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
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A Test of Hypocrisy
Jesus masterfully turns the Pharisees' accusation back on them. Commentators explain that by pointing to the Pharisees' own followers (“your sons”) who also performed exorcisms, Jesus exposed a glaring double standard. If His power was from Satan, then so was theirs—a conclusion the Pharisees would never accept for their own. This reveals their attack was based on personal bias, not principle.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
By whom do your children, etc. Christ was not satisfied with showing them the intrinsic absurdity of their argument. He showed them that i…
19th Century
Anglican
By whom do your children cast them out? The “children” of the Pharisees are their disciples—in this case, specifically th…
Baptist
Our Lord here used an argument suited to the men He dealt with. It was not as compelling in itself as the former one, but as an argument to them, i…
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16th Century
Protestant
By whom do your children cast them out? He charges them with making an unjust and malicious decision, because in the same situation they d…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils As the Pharisees asserted, and would have the people believe; for this is not …
A soul under Satan's power, and led captive by him, is blind in the things of God and dumb at the throne of grace; it sees nothing and says nothing…
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13th Century
Catholic
Above, the Lord refuted those who were slandering both His doctrine and His life; here, however, He refutes those who disparage His miracles. And f…
