Matthew 12:43 (KJV)

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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none
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Cross-references

the unclean. Lu 11:24 Ac 8:13

he. Job 1:7 Job 2:2 1Pe 5:8

dry. Ps 63:1 Isa 35:6 Isa 35:7 Isa 41:18 Eze 47:8-12 Am 8:11-13

seeking. Mt 8:29 Mr 5:7-13 Lu 8:28-32

when.Had there been no reality in demoniacal possessions, as some have supposed, our Lord would scarcely have appealed to a case of this kind here, to point out the real state of the Jewish people, and their approaching desolation. Had this been only a vulgar error, of the nonsense of which the learned scribes and wise Pharisees must have been convinced, the case, not being in point, because not true, must have been treated with contempt by the very people for whose conviction it was designed.

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