An Unclean Spirit Returns

24 “Whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find it.[a] It says,[b] ‘I will return to my house from which I came out.’ 25 And when it[c] arrives it finds the house[d] swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and[e] live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first!”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:24 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Luke 11:24 Some manuscripts have “Then it says”
  3. Luke 11:25 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arrives”) which is understood as temporal
  4. Luke 11:25 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Luke 11:26 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“go in”) has been translated as a finite verb