And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.

And having come, he finds it swept and adorned.

and having come, it findeth it swept and adorned;

And when he comes, he finds it swept and garnished.

and when it comes, it finds the house swept clean and in good order.

And when he comes, he sees that it has been made fair and clean.

And when he has arrived, he finds it swept clean and decorated.

but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.

And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. In Matthew it is also said to be "empty"; and so it is read here in the Arabic version; and in the Ethiopic version, "empty of men": but rather the sense is, that he found it empty of all goodness, notwithstanding all the sweeping and garnish of an outward reformation. The Persic version renders it, "heated and prepared"; heated with wrath and fury against Christ, and his Gospel, and so was prepared and fitted to be a proper habitation for Satan; and in such a case as this was the Jewish nation from the time of Christ's death to the destruction of Jerusalem; See Gill on Matthew 12:44