Matthew 12:43
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.”
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
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“Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.”
“And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.”
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“And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,”
“And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.”