5 

5:1 But of the precise times when this shall be.

5:2 For this in general ye do know; and ye can and need know no more.

5:3 When they - The men of the world say.

5:4 Ye are not in darkness - Sleeping secure in sin.

5:6 Awake, and keep awake - Being awakened, let us have all our spiritual senses about us.

5:7 They usually sleep and are drunken in the night - These things do not love the light.

11 

11:14 It was dumb - That is, it made the man so. Mat 12:22.

11:15 But some said, He casteth out devils by Beelzebub - These he answers, Luk 11:17. Others, to try whether it were so or no, sought a sign from heaven. These he reproves in Luk 11:29 and following verses. Beelzebub signifies the lord of flies, atitle which the heathens gave to Jupiter, whom they accounted the chief of their gods, and yet supposed him to be employed in driving away flies from their temple and sacrifices. The Philistines worshipped a deity under this name, as the god of Ekron: from hence the Jews took the name, and applied it to the chief of the devils. Mar 3:22.

11:16  Mat 12:38.

11:17 A house - That is, a family.

11:20 If I cast out devils by the finger of God - That is, by a power manifestly Divine. Perhaps the expression intimates farther, that it was done without any labour: then the kingdom of God is come upon you - Unawares, unexpected: so the Greek word implies.

11:21 The strong one armed - The devil, strong in himself, and armed with the pride, obstinacy, and security of him in whom he dwells.