2 Or, in.
3 Gr. demons.
4 Or, and house falleth upon house.
5 Or, it.
6 Or, itself.
7 Gr. more than.
a It is perfectly natural that the blasphemous accusation made in Galilee ([§ 61]), and probably more than once ([§ 68], Matt. 9:34), should be repeated a year or so afterward in Judea or Perea, and that Jesus should make substantially the same argument in reply. This sort of thing occurs to every travelling religious teacher. Our Lord does not here give the solemn warning that such an accusation is really blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, and is unpardonable. (See [Luke 12:10].) And the subsequent occurrences are quite different in the two cases. In [§ 64] he afterwards goes out by the lake-side and gives the great group of parables, presently explaining some of them to the disciples in a house, and then crosses the lake to Gerasa, etc. Here in [§ 107] he breakfasts with a Pharisee, and utters such solemn woes against the Pharisees as are found only in the closing months of his ministry, and then gives to vast multitudes a series of instructions wholly unlike the great group of parables. So it is quite unsuitable to identify this occurrence with that of [§ 61].
§ 107. WHILE BREAKFASTING WITH A PHARISEE, JESUS SEVERELY DENOUNCES THE PHARISEES AND LAWYERS, AND EXCITES THEIR ENMITY
Probably in Judea
Luke 11:37-54