Matthew 12:44-47

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^43-45 “This evil nation is like a man possessed by a demon. For if the demon leaves, it goes into the deserts^[a] for a while, seeking rest but finding none. Then it says, ‘I will return to the man I came from.’ So it returns and finds the man’s heart clean but empty! Then the demon finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and all enter the man and live in him. And so he is worse off than before.”

^46-47 As Jesus was speaking in a crowded house,^[b] his mother and brothers were outside, wanting to talk with him. When someone told him they were there,