Matthew 12:31

The omission of τοῖς� after οὐκ� is on the authority of the leading editors and has the sanction of the oldest MSS. and several versions. But, with the exception of א B, all the important Uncials contain the words, and their retention gives weight and solemnity to the clause.

31. διὰ τοῦτο. The conclusion of the whole is—you are on Satan’s side, and knowingly on Satan’s side, in this decisive struggle between the two kingdoms, and this is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost—an unpardonable sin.

This answer is thrown into a poetical form, often observable in the more solemn, or (in human language) the more studied utterances of Christ. Two couplets are followed by a fifth line (οὔτε ἐν τούτῳ … μέλλοντι) which affects each one of the preceding lines.

This charge was not brought forward for the first time. For a while it may have been passed over in silence. When the season for utterance came the manner as well as the meaning of the words would fix themselves for ever in the memory of the listeners.