SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:27
Y si yo por Beelzeb echo fuera los demonios, ¿vuestros hijos por quin los echan? Por tanto, ellos sern vuestros jueces.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:27
Verse 27. By whom do your children cast them out?] Children, or sons of the prophets, means the disciples of the prophets; and children or sons of the Pharisees, disciples of the Pharisees. From Acts xix. 13, 14, it is evident there were exorcists among the Jews, and, from our Lord's saying here, it is also evident that the disciples of the Pharisees did east out demons, or, at least, those who educated them wished to have it believed that they had such a power. Our Lord's argument here is extremely conclusive: If the man who casts out demons proves himself thereby to be in league with and influenced by Satan, then your disciples, and you who taught them, are all of you in league with the devil: ye must either give up your assertion, that I cast out demons by Beelzebul, or else admit this conclusion, in its fullest force and latitude, that ye are all children of the devil, and leagued with him against God. Envy causes persons often to condemn in one, what they approve in another.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils , etc.] As the Pharisees asserted, and would have the people believe; for this is not allowed, only for argument sake supposed: by whom do your children cast them out? meaning not the apostles and disciples of Christ, the children of the Jews, to whom Christ gave power of casting out devils, and who had exercised it in his name; and therefore argues, if they in his name cast out devils, why could he not do it himself, without the help of Satan? wherefore these would be judges against them: but, no doubt, the Pharisees had no better opinion of the disciples, and of their ejection of devils, than of Christ; wherefore, it is not likely, that our Lord should argue with them from hence: but rather, he means, some among themselves, who pretended to have a power of exorcising and ejecting of devils, either in the name of Jesus, as some of them did, ( Mark 9:38; Acts 19:13,14) or in the name of their kings, righteous men, prophets and patriarchs, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob f746 ; and which practice, perhaps, they took up and made pretensions to, in imitation of Christ and his apostles; so as Christ healed men possessed of devils, they also affected to do the same. A story is reported f747 , concerning Ben Talmion, that a miracle was wrought by R.
Eleazar bar Jose, who healed a kings daughter at Rome, in whose body the devil entered, whose name was Ben Talmion; and they brought him (the Jew) to the kings treasury, to take what he would, but he would take nothing from thence, but letters, in which were written the decrees they had decreed against Israel; and when he found them, he tore them to pieces, and there he saw the vessels of the house of the sanctuary, in the treasury.
Now since the Jews pretended to do these things, Christ asks them, by whom they cast out devils? Whether by the Spirit of God, or by Beelzebub? They would doubtless say by the former, and not the latter, which would show their great partiality; for admitting that the like actions were done by them, as by him, why not by the same power? Why should their ejection of devils be ascribed to God, and his to Beelzebub? Therefore they shall be your judges ; who will rise up against you, and condemn you one day, for this unequal judgment you now pass; and which was just the reverse of the true state of the case: for he cast out devils by the Spirit of God, which they imputed to the assistance of Beelzebub; their children cast out devils, or pretended to do so, and it was by the help of Satan; and yet they ascribed it to a divine power, even though they made use of the name of Satan, under that of Beelzebub, or Asmodeus, their exorcising, of which take the following form f748 . By the authority of the glorious and fearful name, I adjure thee Asmodeus, king of the devils, and all thy company, etc. that ye hurt not, nor put in fear, nor trouble such an one, the son of such an one, but that ye help him, and sustain him (or deliver him) out of every distress and anguish, and from every evil thing, and from all diseases, that enter into the two hundred and forty eight members, etc.
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
και 2532 CONJ ει 1487 COND εγω 1473 P-1NS εν 1722 PREP βεελζεβουλ 954 N-PRI εκβαλλω 1544 5719 V-PAI-1S τα 3588 T-APN δαιμονια 1140 N-APN οι 3588 T-NPM υιοι 5207 N-NPM υμων 5216 P-2GP εν 1722 PREP τινι 5101 I-DSM εκβαλλουσιν 1544 5719 V-PAI-3P δια 1223 PREP τουτο 5124 D-ASN αυτοι 846 P-NPM υμων 5216 P-2GP εσονται 2071 5704 V-FXI-3P κριται 2923 N-NPM
