Matthew 12:43-45

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What does Christ mean by this, or rather, why did Matthew include this??
 
In the Ignatius Study Bible’s notes on the Book of Matthew it says that those who were helped by Jesus’ ministry, but then did not follow up by becoming believers would end up worse off than before. A second meaning was that those who were healed by the Pharisees’ expulsion of their evil spirits would not have the benefits of the New Covenant.
 
These are the verses the OP is referring to:

43 And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

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