SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:30
El que no es conmigo, contra mí es; y el que conmigo no coge, derrama.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:30
Verse 30. He that is not with me is against me] In vain do men seek for methods to reconcile God and mammon. There is no medium between loving the Lord and being his enemy-between belonging to Christ or to Satan. If we be on the side of the devil, we must expect to go to the devil's hell; if we be on the side of Christ, we may expect to go to his heaven. When Christ, his truth, and his servants are assaulted, he who does not espouse their cause is not on Christ's side, but incurs the guilt of deserting and betraying him. There are many, (it is to be feared,) in the world who are really against Christ, and scatter abroad, who flatter themselves that they are workers together with him, and of the number of his friends! Scattereth abroad.] This seems to have been a proverbial form of speech, and may be a metaphor taken from shepherds. He who does not help the true shepherd to gather his flock into the fold is, most likely, one who wishes to scatter them, that he may have the opportunity of stealing and destroying them. I do not find any parallel to this proverbial mode of speech in the Jewish rabbins, if it be one, nor have I met with it among the Greek or Roman writers.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 30. He that is not with me, is against me , etc.] These words chiefly refer to Satan, and are a further proof, that Christ did not cast out devils by him; since they two are as much opposites, as can possibly be; Satan is not on the side of Christ, but an adversary to him; there is an original, and implacable enmity, between the serpent and the seed of the woman; there is an open war between them, and therefore one cannot be thought to lend assistance to the other. They were concerned in different things, had different views and interests, and so took different methods; and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth : Christ is the good shepherd, that gathers his sheep to himself, and into his fold, by the external ministry of the word, and internal efficacy of his grace; Satan is the wolf, that catches and scatters the sheep, and seeks to kill and destroy them: and since there is such an open war proclaimed and carried on between Christ and the devil, none ought to be neutral; whoever is not on the side of Christ, is reckoned as an enemy; and whoever is not concerned by prayer or preaching, or other means to gather souls to his word and ordinances, and to his church, and to himself, is deemed by him a scatterer of them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-30 - 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; sees nothing, and say nothing to the purpose. Satan blinds the eyes by unbelief, and seals u the lips from prayer. The more people magnified Christ, the mor desirous the Pharisees were to vilify him. It was evident that if Sata aided Jesus in casting out devils, the kingdom of hell was divide against itself; how then could it stand! And if they said that Jesu cast out devils by the prince of the devils, they could not prove tha their children cast them out by any other power. There are two grea interests in the world; and when unclean spirits are cast out by the Holy Spirit, in the conversion of sinners to a life of faith an obedience, the kingdom of God is come unto us. All who do not aid of rejoice in such a change are against Christ.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Robertson's NT Word Studies
12:30 {He that is not with me} (ho me wn met' emou). With these solemn words Jesus draws the line of cleavage between himself and his enemies qen and now. Jesus still has his enemies who hate him and all noble words and deeds because they sting what conscience they have into fury. But we may have our choice. We either gather with (sunagwn) Christ or scatter (skorpizei) to the four winds. Christ is the magnet of the ages. He draws or drives away. "Satan is the arch-waster, Christ the collector, Savior" (Bruce).
