when: Had there been no reality in demoniacal possessions, as some have supposed, our Lord would scarcely have appealed to a case of this kind here, to point out the real state of the Jewish people, and their approaching desolation. Had this been only a vulgar error, of the nonsense of which the learned scribes and wise Pharisees must have been convinced, the case, not being in point, because not true, must have been treated with contempt by the very people for whose conviction it was designed.
the unclean: Luke 11:24; Acts 8:13
he: Job 1:7, Job 2:2; 1 Peter 5:8
seeking: Matthew 8:29; Mark 5:7-13; Luke 8:28-32