MATTHEW 12:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.”
Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. The strong-man parable explains the exorcisms: Jesus is the one who has entered the strong man's house (Satan's domain), bound the strong man (Satan), and is plundering his goods (freeing those held captive by demonic power). The exorcisms are not cooperation with Satan but the defeat of Satan. The binding of the strong man is the eschatological event that Matthew 12 presents as already underway.
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