Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 12:24

24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This f[illegible: 1 letter]llow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

We met with the same Blasphemous Calumny, from the same Persons, Ch. 9.34. The Pharisees, not acknowledging the Deity of Christ, nor that he was the Messiah, were for their Interest concerned, not to acknowledge, and as much as in them lay to keep others from believing, that he did that from his own Power, which God alone could do. But yet they might have allowed him to have by a Power derived from God, done these miraculous things, as Elijah and Elisha of old did. But they Blaspheme at the highest Rate imaginable, ascribing that to the Devil, which was proper to God alone. Christ's Miracles were exceeding many, and it was a time when the Messiah was expected. The Scepter was departed from Iudah, and as it appears from Ioh. 7.31, (what ever the Iews now say impudently) They heard that when the Messiah did come, he should work many Miracles. These things puts them into a Rage. This remarkable Piece of History is recorded by three Evangelists. By Matthew in this place, by Mark ch. 3.22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. and by Luke▪ Ch. 11. v. 17, 18, 19, 20.