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LUKE 11:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 11:19Luke 11:21
“But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.”
The third woe — you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it — identifies the Pharisees as sources of invisible defilement: they appear as religious guides but lead people into death-contact they do not recognize. Numbers 19:16 specified that contact with a grave defiled; the unmarked grave defiled the unwary traveler. The Pharisees are the unmarked spiritual graves of their generation.

Church Fathers on Luke 11:20

The suspicion of the Pharisees being utterly without reason, they dared not divulge it for fear of the multitude, but pondered it in their minds. Hence it is said, But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself will be brought to desolation.

Chrysostom · 4th century

He answered not their words but their thoughts, that so at least they might be compelled to believe in His power, who saw into the secrets of the heart.

Bede · 8th century

Herein also He shows His own kingdom to be undivided and everlasting. Those then who possess no hope in Christ, but think that He casts out devils through the chief of the devils, their kingdom, He says, is not everlasting. This also has reference to the Jewish people. For how can the kingdom of the Jews be everlasting, when by the people of the law Jesus is denied, who is promised by the law? Thus in part does the faith of the Jewish people impugn itself; the glory of the…

Ambrose · 4th century
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