re:
and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.

27 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman
out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him,
Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou
didst suck. 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear
the word of God, and keep it.

29 And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he
began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh
after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign
of Jonah. 30 For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites,
so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. 31 The queen
of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this
generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of
the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater
than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the
judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they
repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than
Jonah is here.

33 No man, when he hath lighted a lamp, putteth it in a cellar,
neither under the bushel, but on the stand, that they which enter
in may see the light. 34 The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when
thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but
when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Look
therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness. 36 If
therefore thy whole body be full of light, having no part dark, it
shall be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright
shining doth give thee light.

The first of these two discourses, vs. 14-26, was given by Jesus in reply
to the charge that he wrought his miracles by Satanic power, v. 15; the
second, vs. 29-36, was an answer to the demand that he should compel his
enemies to believe in him by giving them "a sign from heaven," v. 16.

Jesus had just cast out a demon. His enemies did not attempt to deny that
a miracle had been performed; but, in order to discredit him with the
people, they explained the miracle on the ground that Jesus must be in
league with the Devil. He replied by showing the absurdity of suggesting
that the Devil was casting out devils, or "demons," for in that case his
power would be like a kingdom "divided against itself" and so cert