Jesus has stepped on some toes because he has made people feel uncomfortable in their self-righteousness. The truth often has that effect on people, and no one has ever spoken the truth like Jesus. He has made a lot of enemies and as we saw yesterday, even his family thinks he is crazy.
In today’s passage Jesus is accused of being possessed by Satan. The Scribes were saying that is how he cast out demons, because he himself is possessed by one. Jesus turns this around on the people, saying that that does not make any sense, why would Satan want to cast out demons? He goes on to give a story about how if you want to rob a house you should tie up the man who lives in it first. The point is that Jesus is casting out Demons because he has power over Satan, in a sense he has tied him up.
Jesus then says something cryptic about an unforgivable sin. We have to understand this in context. This unforgivable sin is the sin of continuing the claim that Jesus’ actions were caused by demonic possession. If you were living at the time of Jesus and continued to claim that his miracles were caused by demon possession then you are blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
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